[openbeos] Re: Coding Suggestion -- Templates, Iterators

  • From: "Erik Jakowatz" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:48:17 -0800

>You are confusing STL with templates.

My bad for not being more clear and assuming too much.  Assuming this 
knowledge:

>Templates in and of themselves are perfectly type safe.

I figured François was talking about the STL.

e

>STL is a whole different issue. 
>
>>>Not to start a flame war, but I heard templates had threadsafety 
>>problems.
>>
>>All depends on how they're implemented.  I understand that SGI's 
>>implementation has some thread-safety issues; I'd like to see OpenBeOS 

>>use/ship with STLPort which is getting to be pretty well known for its 

>>robustness -- including thread-safety.
>>
>>e
>>
>>>Btw, the only thing in NPlay that uses an template (the list of 
>>available
>>>renderers, a templatized BList), I had to comment out the delete 
>>fRendererList; 
>>>because it crashed everytime... so I'd say my experience with 
templates 
>>is 
>>>quite short :))
>>>
>>>François.

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