October 1997
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 48m
English
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B.1. Why Use STL?
The Standard Template Library (STL) is part of the ANSI C++ standard. STL consists of 10 generic container classes that store and retrieve objects with value semantics. With generic algorithms and iterators, STL offers a wide variety of ways to work with container elements. The end result is a standard set of portable and efficient programming components for C++ programming.
STL offers the following advantages:
STL containers are generic. Templates let you use the same container with any class or built-in type.
STL is efficient. The various containers provide different data structures, and STL doesn't use inheritance or virtual functions. You choose the container that is most efficient for the type of operations you expect to ...