No it's part of the standard. The STL guys can't implement it differently. Here are a few alternatives: MCT closed_hash_map Sparsehash's sparse_hash_map or d

No it's part of the standard. The STL guys can't implement it differently. Here are a few alternatives: MCT closed_hash_map Sparsehash's sparse_hash_map or dense_hash_map loki::assocvector boost::flat_hash_map