Herb Stutter mentioned once that an advantage of the STL is that it gets you good general-purpose performance initially, but tries to stay out of your way if yo

Herb Stutter mentioned once that an advantage of the STL is that it gets you good general-purpose performance initially, but tries to stay out of your way if you want to replace it for something more specialized. I think you’re right about a codebase replacing parts of STL as necessary. One I see frequently is `std::array` being wrapped with iterators to be essentially a stack-allocated vector.