Hi all, this is just a gentle reminder:
We don’t use STL generally. There are exceptions, but unless there are truly good reasons for it, just don’t use it. Even if it’s not on the critical path. We have plenty of containers and tools to do similar things. Yes, they are not as “neat” as STL, but it’s worth taking the time to understand them, and improve upon them when needed. There are exceptions, of course: 1) In plugins, we generally don’t say anything, since the user(s) always has the option *not* to use a plugin they don’t like. We also have no way currently to expose our core data structures through the C API. 2) In standalone tools, such as traffic_ctl, traffic_layout, and traffic_logstats, it’s all free for all. it doesn’t mean you should make those intentionally slow, but it is not worth going through hoops to use our performance optimized containers for these tools, when STL works just fine. Thanks, — leif
