In article <fxtlo957k79.fsf@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com> writes:
>The second piece of good news: the original HP STL was rather lavish
>in its use of memory (you would, indeed, waste 4K bytes if you
>inserted a single element into an empty vector), but more recent
>implementations do not have this problem.  The implementation that I'm
>most familiar with, the SGI STL (http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL)
>does not waste memory this way.

I'd like to add third piece of good news : SGI implementation ported to gcc,
SunPro, Borland is available on
(http://www.ipmce.su/people/fbp/stl/stlport.html).

IMHO, SGI STL is a real win over first HP version (and implementations built
upon it, such as libg++ version or Rogue Wave coming with Borland 5.x),
especially in allocation handling.
Using this port, you can try it out even with non-advanced compilers.
It has been proved to work with : gcc-2.7.x, SunPro 4.x, Borland 5.x.
Probably others would work with little or no workarounds.

Best regards,

--
-Boris *  [fbp@mcst.ru] * Opinions expressed here are mine alone.



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