Re: [Wesnoth-dev] C++ streams and VC++6

[David White]

David White wrote:

> In 0.9.0, we switched to using istreams to read files, instead of 
> using the C API.
>
> Unfortunately it seems the istreams implementation that ships with 
> VC++6 is very slow. It can take a very long time for an uncached game 
> to load a campaign -- up to a minute on my 2Ghz machine, and some 
> users seem to report it taking many minutes.

I managed to resolve this problem by using VC++6 with STLPort instead of 
the Microsoft/Dinkumware standard library implementation that ships with 
VC++6.

I tried to use the freely downloadable VC++7.1 compiler, but I couldn't 
get it working properly: it seems to crash in libintl alot for some reason.

STLPort should also have other advantages for us, such as supporting all 
std::string operations properly such as push_back and template constructors.

David