On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:42:35PM +0800, ?????? wrote: > > The C++ standard said Container::size() should have constant complexity > (ISO/IEC 14882:1998, pp. 461, Table 65), while the std::list::size() in > current STL of GCC is defined as { std::distance(begin(), end()); }, whose > complexiy is O(n). > > Is it a bug?
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