STL Alternative

Question

I really hate using STL containers because they make the debug version of my code run really slowly. What do other people use instead of STL that has reasonable performance for

Answer 1

If your running visual studios you may want to consider the following:

#define _SECURE_SCL 0
#define _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING 0

That's just for iterators, what type of STL operations are you preforming? You may want to look at optimizing your memory operations; ie, using resize() to insert several elements at once instead of using pop/push to insert elements one at a time.