Irrlicht containers

vincent-v · Post by **vincent-v** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:54 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Irrlicht (but it really seems to be awesome ^^) and I was just wondering why the engine has his own containers instead of using c++ standard libs ?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:32 pm

Many things were much easier in the time when Irrlicht was started. Some are still nowadays, moreover is a pain to convert allthings over to something else.

vincent-v · Post by **vincent-v** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:42 am

So there aren't any disadvantages in comparison to standard containers ? I mean in performance terms.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:36 am

Did you find any? I mean, does your app run slower now that you use Irrlicht containers?

vincent-v · Post by **vincent-v** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:17 pm

I started my app with irrlicht containers...

But after some tests I would say that std containers are faster (I made my test only with maps so I'm not sure it's the same for all)

However in my opinion the difference is insignificant in most of usage cases.