Chapter 11. Standard Template Library
The Standard Template Library (STL) is a powerful combination of containers and generic algorithms. From a performance perspective, a few questions immediately come to mind:
The STL comes bundled with performance guarantees of the asymptotic complexity of the various containers and algorithms. What does it really mean?
The STL consists of many containers. Faced with a given computational task, what containers should I use? Are some better than others for a given scenario?
How good is the performance of the STL? Can I do better by rolling my own home-grown containers and algorithms?
We will address these and other related issues in this chapter.
Even though we often refer to “the STL performance,” it should ...
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