Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > The 3. is of course to not use lyxstring. However then we will have
| > some problems with different non-conforming string implementations.
| > and we need to investigate what each of them does that makes them
| > non-conforming.
|
| There are other reasons for not using someone else's string. I don't like
| using SGI STL's string because it makes "-g" binaries about 5 times
| larger than every other STL's string does. It also requires up to 180MB
| to compile some of our files when exceptions are enabled (and since xtl
| requires exceptions...you can guess the rest)
This is far from the numbers I see when using gcc 2.95.2 with
libstdc++-v3, compiling with -g is slow but the resulting binaries is
not tht bad.
Lgb
