std.container and classes

Froglegs lugtug at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 13:22:55 PST 2011


   I don't really think ref counted struct vs class is fair, 
because in reality most containers don't need ref counting.  I 
can't think of one instance in C++ where I stuck a container 
directly in a shared_ptr or anything similar.

Also as far I as I can tell making it a class would bloat it with 
unnecessary data(vtable), and being it is common to have many 
many instances of these containers, that doesn't sound like such 
a great thing.




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