From: jhopkin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2004-07-06 10:53:38
Daniel Frey wrote:
> > Gennaro Prota wrote:
> > > Does the swap trick necessarily free the memory?
>
> AFAIK, yes. See <http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/054.htm>.
>
The STL implementation I have been using seems to allocate a buffer on first
insertion into any container of a given type, and frees it only when it
feels like it (often on program shut-down).
I don't know if it's a strictly conforming implementation in that respect,
although I can't see anything in the standard prohibiting this behaviour.
James Hopkin