Paralysis of analysis

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:13:36 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The two words overhead comes from the vtable and the mutex.
>
> I don't think that overhead is a problem. For small numbers of values,  
> one should use an array. The more complex containers are for larger  
> numbers of values, where 2 words is insignificant.

The place I see it being an issue is for things like a map where the value  
type is a linked list.  It's quite conceivable that a map type like this  
could have thousands of one-element linked lists, with a few scattered 2  
or more element linked lists.

I don't think it's a common thing, but I think there can be solutions that  
work around this issue.  I agree the 2 words are not enough to dissuade  
using classes for container types.

-Steve