On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:42:35PM +0800, ?????? wrote:
>
> The C++ standard said Container::size() should have constant complexity
> (ISO/IEC 14882:1998, pp. 461, Table 65), while the std::list::size() in
> current STL of GCC is defined as { std::distance(begin(), end()); }, whose
> complexiy is O(n).
>
> Is it a bug?
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