At 02:20 AM 2/4/2004, Rich Sposato wrote:
From what I just read about indexed_set, it seems that the best benefit to using flex_set instead of indexed_set is that flex_set is simpler and smaller.
How much simpler and smaller? If a programmer familiar with std::set could learn to use flex_set in and hour, and indexed_set an hour and ten minutes, I wouldn't see the difference as large enough to warrant two separate libraries. If that programmer who could learn to use flex_set in an hour would take four hours to learn indexed_set, the difference starts to look significant. Probably programmers not familiar with either library would be the best judges. Efficiency is also a question, but I don't suppose anyone has run apples-to-apples timings, and I'm always leery of efficiency arguments not supported by actual timings. --Beman