[v3] basic_string::reserve() shrink-to-fit?

[Nathan Myers]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:35:17AM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:20:20PM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > I'll prepare a FAQ entry tonight if noone beats me too it.
> 
> For vector, the shorter
> 
>   std::vector<T>(v).swap(v);
> 
> is preferred.  I.e. vector isn't copy-on-write, so a regular copy 
> suffices to construct the temporary.

Paolo and Neil hasten to remind me that I recollect wrongly about
std::string::reserve.  I should have looked it up, because memory does
fade, and one can't be everywhere at once, and who knows what evil
lurks in the sub-groups of the LWG?

So, the FAQ is really only about vector, but deserves to be there
not less.

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org