From kde-devel  Sun Oct 31 17:39:47 2004
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:39:47 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: "Fixed" post-increment operators on iterators
Message-Id: <200410311239.48634.ben () meyerhome ! net>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=109925162318162

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On Sunday 31 October 2004 1:32 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:27, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 October, 2004 12:59, Frederik Schmid wrote:
> > > > QStringList::ConstIterator itEnd = matches.end();
> > > > for(QStringList::ConstIterator it = matches.begin(); it != itEnd;
> > > > ++it) _keyList->insertItem(*it);
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > The compiler will (almost certainly) move loop-conditions out ouf the
> > > loop, so no need to add extra lines in this case.
> >
> > I have always wondered about that. Unless the container is const, how can
> > the compiler know that mycontainer->end() always returns the same value?
>
> exactly, and so it won't, and so caching the return value of end() (or
> length(), or...) almost always results in a speedup (of how much and of
> what impact is another matter)
>
> > Also, why is it we don't use STL? The above could be written as
> > (untested)
>
> probably a combination of the fact that STL support on all the platforms
> people use KDE on has traditionally sucked and that many people aren't
> familiar with the STL.

At least with Qt4 we will have foreach.

- -Benjamin Meyer

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