Once I was handling a big data set for natural language processing. It's big enough it nearly ate all my memory and was somewhat slow if I remember correctly. T

Once I was handling a big data set for natural language processing. It's big enough it nearly ate all my memory and was somewhat slow if I remember correctly. Then I switched to a C-based toolkit, memory usage dropped significantly. I never knew STL overhead was high until that point. Yeah STL is great, but for big data, maybe not.