[webkit-dev] custom containers advantage over stl containers

David Hyatt hyatt at apple.com
Mon Jan 7 14:22:31 PST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Darin Adler wrote:

>
> The standard C++ library std::vector and std::hash_map also rely on C 
> ++ exceptions, and our entire project works with a limited dialect  
> of C++ that doesn't use RTTI or exceptions.


To clarify this point, we found that using RTTI/exceptions resulted in  
a significant code footprint increase, and that is the reason we  
decided not to use them.

dave



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