Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> And no segfaults! It turns out that if you throw enough STL containers 
> at the problem, you can make it work without any manual pointer 
> manipulation.

When using the standard containers, one should know how they work and
what they are doing, in terms of efficiency. For example, passing them
by value eg. as function parameters is inefficient, and that should always
be done by reference, if possible.

And also, of course, use the right tool for the job. It makes no sense
to use, for example, std::list for something that std::vector will do.
And if your array is of static size, use std::array instead of std::vector
(especially if it's eg. a smallish array that's a member variable of a
class that gets instantiated a lot.)

You can still index those out-of-bounds, but many compilers, eg. Visual
Studio, will add boundary checks when compiling in debug mode. (The
boundary checks are not used in release mode for efficiency.)

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                                                          - Warp

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