This is pretty old (last year) however its interesting none the less. Basically EA took STL and optimized it for game development.  Afterwoods they wrote this paper and sent it to the STL committee.  Many of the concepts/suggestions are not game programming specific.  I think D and D's standard libs may be able to learn something from this.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html

-Joel

On Fri, 23 May 2008 23:58:02 -0700, janderson wrote:

> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html
> 
> -Joel

this sounds great, I wish we had something like that and GIL for D

janderson:
> This is pretty old (last year) however its interesting none the less. Basically EA took STL and optimized it for game development.  Afterwoods they wrote this paper and sent it to the STL committee.  Many of the concepts/suggestions are not game programming specific.  I think D and D's standard libs may be able to learn something from this.

I think this is even more interesting: http://www.stepanovpapers.com/notes.pdf

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> janderson:
> 
>>This is pretty old (last year) however its interesting none the less. Basically EA took STL and optimized it for game development.  Afterwoods they wrote this paper and sent it to the STL committee.  Many of the concepts/suggestions are not game programming specific.  I think D and D's standard libs may be able to learn something from this.
> 
> 
> I think this is even more interesting:
> http://www.stepanovpapers.com/notes.pdf

The latter might be a bit forbidding to anyone not familiar with C++ STL, and too detailed and long anyway to be read on-line.

The former, however is definitely something all of us might want to read soon. It contains accessible insights into library development, programming, and optimizing. And real-world issues presented by an authority on the nitty-gritty of actual coding, much of which is applicable in domains other than only games programming.