Welcome to the WDL forum

[Justin]

The WDL homepage is http://cockos.com/wdl .. If you are a C++ programmer and use it, feel free to post here to ask questions or share your findings..

Cheers,

Justin

[Defenestration]

Many thanks for releasing this library of code - some of the classes are exactly what I'm looking for. :)

I'm curious though, as to why you have not used the STL or Boost libraries for some of the memory management, storage containers, file traversing etc ?

Is it because it wasn't efficient enough, or were there other reasons ?

I ask because I am starting to use the STL and Boost a bit more in my code, but have seen a few articles which tend to indicate they are not as efficient as they could be. What are your thoughts on the STL and Boost libraries ?

BTW, I'm currently using MS Visual Studio 2005, but have seen performance boosts of around 10%-15% with code compiled with Intel's C++ compiler (including on AMD CPU's) so am considering using that instead. What is REAPER compiled with ?

[Christophe]

Some of the reasons why we decided against using STL is that we think it is big, bloated and a big PITA to use :) We usually like to keep thing small and simple.

REAPER now has some sections compiled with the Intel C++ compiler which definitly sped up some of the program internal loops.