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Re:Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integer... by ncmncm on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:27PM (#21109132)
An unsigned type is sometimes a poor choice for a loop index. The compiler then cannot assume the loop will terminate, and generate worse code. Usually this doesn't matter -- until you discover it did.
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Re:Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integer... by rleigh on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:42PM (#21109231)
Good point. Probably not a problem in practice for most containers, but yet another reason for why the STL (and C library, for that matter) should have used a signed size type from the beginning.
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