Re: [gtkmm] The role of glibmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 23:57, SilvioCVdeAlmeida wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
> > glib generally doesn't wrap things that are already
> > present in Standard C++, such as basic data structures.
> 
> OK, that's the point!
> 
> > I don't think anybody has tried it, and I don't even
> > know what a glib "Keyed Data List" is. It sounds a bit
> > like a std::map<>.
> 
> It is std::map plus GQuark, an int=>char* association for
> memory saving on key names.

This sounds like optimisation, and I think that's the job of std::map<>.
And if you don't have an actual performance problem to solve then I
wouldn't worry about it.

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