[Bug 1116552] New: Review Request: ustl - A size-optimized STL implementation

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116552

            Bug ID: 1116552
           Summary: Review Request: ustl - A size-optimized STL
                    implementation
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: i@xxxxxxxx
        QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Spec URL: http://us-la.cicku.me/ustl.spec
SRPM URL: http://us-la.cicku.me/ustl-2.1-1.fc21.src.rpm
Description: The C++ standard template library (STL) is a collection of common
containers 
and algorithms in template form. Unfortunately its standard incarnation 
shipped with gcc is implemented without much concern for code size. Not only 
is the library itself large, the current version being over a megabyte in 
size, but with all the code you instantiate by using a vector for each of 
your containers, it is easy to become fearful and opt for using static 
arrays instead or, worse yet, abandon C++ altogether for C. This is 
especially painful to former DOS assembly programmers like myself, who fret 
endlessly when the size of the executable crosses the magic 64k boundary, 
forgetting that nobody cares about memory anymore.

Of course, these days everyone has gigabytes of RAM and has no compunction 
about loading up OpenOffice, whose source tree is over a gigabyte in size. 
Why then bother with saving a kilobyte of code here and there? I can't really 
say. Maybe it's that warm fuzzy knowledge that you are making maximum possible
use of your computer's resources. Maybe it's that thrill you get after 
expressing your program's functionality in the fewest possible instructions 
and the minimum imaginable overhead. Or maybe it really is of no importance 
and any code bloat will be easily overcome by faster processors in some near 
future. I just know what I like, and it's the sight of clean, concise, and 
fast code. Therefore this library.
Fedora Account System Username: cicku

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