Fancy running into you here. Anyway, as it turns out, while the STL container situation is better than it was, it's still really terrible performance-wise. So

Fancy running into you here. Anyway, as it turns out, while the STL container situation is better than it was, it's still really terrible performance-wise. So even nowadays, you're better off writing your own containers for performance-critical tasks; the benefits can be in orders of magnitude (depending on the task at hand, of course).