Re: vector and struct deallocation
Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> wrote:
Why not? std::string is easier to work with than a raw array. For example
as it has operator==, I can easily test if(wpt.id=="123456") instead of
using memcmp() or strcmp() or whatever is more appropriate. Also the
assumptions like "'id' member can have at most 6 characters" are often
prone to failing in some more or less distant future.
Unless the particular std::string implementation happens to use short
string optimization (which really isn't a given), it will be horribly
inefficient and wastes memory. Even if it *does* implement short string
optimization, it will still be a lot larger than 6 bytes. std::string
doesn't protect you from out-of-bounds accesses either (except in the
debug mode of some compilers).
If you really need an operator== for it, either write it as a member of
that struct or use std::array instead.
There's an advantage to std::string over a static array only if the size
of the string could grow. (Even then you should be aware of the possible
efficiency problems.)
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