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- From: Mark Nelson <markn@airmail.net>
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- Subject: Re: STL
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:47:35 -0600
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- Linda Kasparek wrote:
- >
- > I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask the obvious: where's the implementation for STL?
-
- Hi Linda,
-
- The HP distribution of the STL has nearly all of its code in header files. This is the quick and
- easy way to write a template based library. Clever programmers manage to move some of the
- common code pieces out of template functions and into library files. Companies like ObjectSpace
- have implementations of the STL that do this to prevent code bloat. Microsoft could have done
- this, but opted for the shovel-ware approach instead.
-
- Mark Nelson
- see http://web2.airmail.net/markn for STL links
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