[Patch] My proposal for _Alloc_traits-free rope

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:40:27PM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> >>Well, perhaps, 'rope' isn't really used that much these days and we had 
> >>better
> >>spending our time elsewhere...
> >
> >I wonder about this too. It seems to be the single-biggest user of
> >deprecated bits. Should we just kill it?
> 
> Any thoughts on this? The more I think about it, the more I think rope should go. 

If basic_string performs comparably well on huge data, then I completely
agree.

If basic_string performs only tolerably well on huge data, then I still
mostly agree.  Everyone knows it's an extension by now; portable users
don't use it.

Suggest we deprecate the whole thing for 3.4 (along with slist?  hmmm)
and kill it in 3.5.


Phil

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