Re: std::vector::clear (was: [GD-Windows] VS.net rants, was Re: VC++ lag)

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

In article <005e01c33214$9c9b8b40$0100a8c0@r0x0rz>,
    "Neil Stewart" <ne...@r0...>  writes:

> 2. While the standard does not appear to say that erase() must not
> deallocate memory, it very explicitly states that insert() will allocate
> memory if required, and it is also very clear that resize() and reserve()
> should never reduce capacity() (i.e. deallocate memory).

Right.  This is why I was saying you should do resize(0) if you want
to retain the memory.  I'm not a C++ language lawyer, but resize(0)
more explicitly tells me as a reader of the code that they wanted to
retain the current allocation but forget all the elements.  clear() to
me says that its OK to delete the current allocation as well as forget
all the elements.
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