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Robert Collins wrote:
> I'd like to raise the STL again as an option for squid3 rather than
> NIH'ing a whole bunch of core infrastructure.
>
> The STL, and boost:: - the STL's 'incoming pipeline' provides a tonne of
> really useful tools for efficient data implementations of trees, hash's
> etc etc etc.
>
> Last time the big concern was over readable compiler errors.
>
> I dont think that has improved hugely over the last 2 years, but I think
> that its a net win - there is usually a clear reason for the error if
> you read at the top, and the amount of code that we could delete, or
> stop writing, is huge.
+1 from me. The only drawback I know of is the possibility that a given
platform has no built-in STL, or only a crippled one. Even that should
no longer be a problem on any modern version of gcc (2.9.5 was the last
"weird" one I knew of.
Tres.
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