Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

The problem with the STL is that the performance of these libraries is
truly horrible. The approach that is currently planned is to attempt to
provide very similar functionality - just with some good performance. It is
expected that the STL will replace these libraries when it grows up.

There are a number of places where these standard, industry-wide standards
just do not live up to the kind of performance that is expected. With each
new technology, we take a significant performance hit.

When we first started using vxWorks we found that their locking semaphores
used 75 usecs even when the semaphore was available. Our rewritten one took
3 usecs when the semaphore was available. It took one small design meeting
about 4 hours to design the code and prove that it was safe. It was worth it.
	Bob

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Let's use the STL! [Was: about the abstractData.h] Benjamin Franksen

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