On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:22:29PM -0500, Johan Warlander wrote:
> Browsing the code a few months ago, I saw that it's not using the STL, but
> rather has its own container class, the linked list one. Merely out of
> curiosity, is this because no one's gotten to it yet, or is it a conscious
> choice? I *can* see many reasons not to use it, in certain circumstances -
> like wanting to maintain compatibility with older compilers, perhaps even
> specific bugs in the STL that are not acceptable. I was just kind of
> curious, since I've done some work using the STL myself and found it for
> the most part a blessing.
I asked about this a few days ago. Seems that not all compilers have STL
support and not all STL's are as well optimized. The list class helps keep
memory usage to a minimum. Not all STLs are as good.
