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reubenmorais on Nov 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please grow your buffers exponentially

>I thought Firefox was mostly written in C++? Pretty surprised that raw realloc()s are widespread enough to warrant a note like this.

It is, but STL usage is very limited, because of all the headaches involved in linking against all the different STL implementations in all the different platforms. mozilla-central has its own containers.

ExpiredLink on Nov 4, 2014 | [–]

The C++ variant most used in the real world is 'C with (some) classes'.

cerberusss on Nov 5, 2014 | | [–]

That, or people stay put in a framework such as Qt. I'd consider myself an experienced Qt developer. C++? Not so much.

blt on Nov 11, 2014 | [–]

I understand, but writing your own dynamic resizing array class is not hard.

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