Re: STL vector
On 2007-12-23 15:08, Rahul wrote:
On Dec 23, 5:25 pm, Erik Wikstr?m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2007-12-23 05:53, Daniel T. wrote:
b...@coolgroups.com wrote:
Does an STL vector ever reduce its capacity? (i.e. after a lot of
deletions)
No, and there is no way to explicitly tell it to do so. If you want to
reduce the capacity, you need to swap the vector with one that has the
capacity you want.
For example:
void fn( vector<int>& foo ) {
// trim capacity to minimum needed
vector<int>( foo ).swap( foo );
}
What does the line do? It copy constructs a temp vector from 'foo' then
swaps its contents with those that are currently in 'foo' then destroys
the temp. I'm not sure I'd ever use the idiom though. It seems
pointless in a virtual memory environment, and would probably cause too
much fragmentation in one that doesn't have virtual memory.
That, of course, depends on what kinds of applications you are running.
Despite the virtual memory you only have 2GB to play with by default on
a Windows machine, and for some applications that might not be plenty.
--
Erik Wikstr?m
Why do you say the memory to be only 2 GB? I know its not related to
the OP's question, but just was curious about it...
Because it is. The 4GB virtual address space on a 32-bit Windows machine
is divided in two parts, 2GB to user applications and 2GB for the
kernel. Using an option during boot you can increase the user space part
to 3GB. I do not know how big the address space is for 64-bit
applications on a 64-bit Windows but I'd imagine that it is quite a bit
larger.
IIRC, on Linux the address space is divided 1GB kernel and 3GB user
space by default, but it is tunable.
--
Erik Wikstr?m
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