Thanks for the clarification, Darin. Can we add this preference on the style guide for the future reference?
- Ryosuke On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > We prefer index style. In the past I believe we could not measure a > difference in performance. > > One benefit of the index style is that it is more terse, and often easier > to read than the iterator style, which requires repeating the type name > twice to declare the start and end value of the vector. > > Another benefit of the index style is that it behaves predictably if > elements are added to the vector while iterating it. The pointer style can > easily end up accessing freed memory. > > A benefit of the pointer style is that it could theoretically be faster > because there is no need to refetch the vector base address. > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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