Irrlicht containers

[vincent-v]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Irrlicht (but it really seems to be awesome ^^) and I was just wondering why the engine has his own containers instead of using c++ standard libs ?

[hybrid]

Many things were much easier in the time when Irrlicht was started. Some are still nowadays, moreover is a pain to convert allthings over to something else.

[vincent-v]

So there aren't any disadvantages in comparison to standard containers ? I mean in performance terms.

[hybrid]

Did you find any? I mean, does your app run slower now that you use Irrlicht containers?

[vincent-v]

I started my app with irrlicht containers...

But after some tests I would say that std containers are faster (I made my test only with maps so I'm not sure it's the same for all)

However in my opinion the difference is insignificant in most of usage cases.