On Thursday 22 September 2011 09:08:02 ext Marc Mutz wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > On Tuesday August 23 2011, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Moreover, imagine an embedded device that wants to save space in the > > minimal base system: they could choose to compile Qt and all of their > > applications without STL, thus saving a few hundred kilobytes of libstdc++. > > But user applications could still use STL if they wanted and interoperate > > with Qt, only triggering the install of that lib. > > I wonder: have you measured that the size wouldn't be _smaller_ if Qt used > the > STL instead of its own container classes? :) > > Here's an idea: > 1. Make the QTL name-compatible with the STL (let's call this QtSTL) > 2. Use the std::names instead of the QNames everywhere > (or make the namespace configurable). > [...]
Having the names in sync with the rest of Qt and "incompatible" convenience functions like "contains()" are advantages of the Qt Containers. If you don't need or want that, just use the Standard Library containers directly, today. Andre' _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
