For triple-A game engines attuned to work on console hardware, sure, but they're really sophisticated optimizations. The STL is fine for a lot of things in gam

For triple-A game engines attuned to work on console hardware, sure, but they're really sophisticated optimizations. The STL is fine for a lot of things in gamedev. Object pools are not so hard to implement, the only thing a object pool really does is to reduce memory allocation and de-allocation delays while keeping the O(1) random access. It's just a strategy for allocating and accessing memory properly. It sounds like premature optimization, and it often is, because those strategies are not really trivial to use or implement.