[Patch] Performance and memory usage improvements for stl_tree.h

[Nathan Myers]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Gawain Bolton wrote:
> Nathan Myers wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0100, Gawain Bolton wrote:
> >>This is an updated patch to improve stl_tree.h.  It affects the 
> >>std::map, std::multimap, std::set and std::multiset container types. 
> >
> >I vote to put this one in immediately.   The only think I'd fix along
> >the way is some of the comments that go beyond 80 columns.
>
> Thanks for your comments Nathan.  I have fixed the problem concerning 
> comments beyond 80 columns and removed the use of static_cast<> as this 
> increased the  size of generated code bloat and is therefore probably 
> less efficient than a C style cast.

If a C-style cast produced different object code than the static_cast<>,
that probably indicates an error.  We like static_cast<> because it's
easier to find with grep, and ugly enough that you try to avoid a need
to do it at all.

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org