[GD-Windows] Re: VS.net rants, was Re: VC++ lag

[Enno R. <en...@de...>]

> For some reason, they have changed the functionality of vector::clear() to
> actually deallocate memory, rather than simply doing erase(begin(), end()),
> which leaves the memory allocated. 

Oh, that's good to know, thanks. I never realized what a hassle the STL can 
be when switching compilers (or more precisely, STL versions). Especially if 
you buy in libraries that use it - we've got one. We now need to ask the 
vendor to compile us a new version that fits with the VC7.1 version of STL. 
Other libraries (we use ACE) need to be recompiled for every new STL 
version. There's probably no really good solution for this...

Enno.