N Smethurst: > Since a vector is a wrapped C array (i.e. contigous), the [] operator > compiles to the C equivalent when optimisation is turned on.
I was thinking of iterator operations, having vaguely recalled that the vector iterator in the gcc library had at some point changed from an actual pointer to a wrapper class. Looking at the code, though, the wrapper is so thin that it probably isn't an issue with optimization on. Chris
