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20401: Re: TECH: STL / Heaps, etc. (was: [MUD-Dev] TECH DGN: a few mud server design questions (long))
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From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:44:18 +0200
References: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Eli Stevens wrote:
> problems with the STL lurking under the surface? One aspect that
> concerned me was that while it specifies the complexity of a given
> operation, you don't have any control over the coefficients
> involved. Would it be a bad idea to rely on it too much?
It is probably a good idea to wrap it up in an abstraction. In the long
run you might want to replace the priority heap with sorting into
buckets followed by a regular sort for efficiency reasons.
> I guess that would be hard to answer without a specific problem at
> hand. :(
Not to mention a specific implementation...
What I seriously dislike about STL is the lists. Completely under
powered compared to the hand-coded alternative hack.
--
Ola - http://www.notam.uio.no/~olagr/
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