Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé wrote:
>> I continue to belief, that containers should be value-types. In order >> to prevent useless copying you can use something like "Impl * impl" >> and reference-counting. Then you only do a copy on actual change. This >> is the way I'm currently implementing in my own container-classes. > From my point of view reference counting is not very elegant. However, maybe reference counting is a feasible way to go before better times will arise.