[Qt-interest] Qt Containers (or: why I must use STL)

[Christian Buchner]

Thiago Macieira wrote on 13. Oktober 2009, 00:55:

> It's not if it's not designed to. To put it plainly: ensure that your
> applications have always enough memory. Add more memory to your device if
> you're running out of it, instead of trying to resolve an out-of-memory
> situation. This includes virtual memory.

One problem we currently face is the limited 4GB addressable space
that 32 bit applications have. So we run out of address space way
before the system runs out of virtual memory.

And we're not quite ready yet to port this legacy app to 64 bit -
mostly because the underlying open source foundation has not been
checked for  64 bit compatibility (at least not in the outdated
version we're running).

So a more graceful out of memory error handling in Qt is definitely on
our wish list.

Christian