一般来说,当你不关心你正在使用什么类型的顺序容器时使用vector,但如果你在容器中的任何地方进行了很多插入或擦除操作,而非只在末尾,那就使用list。 或者如果你需要随机访问,那么你会想要vector,而不是list。
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/programming/c++/stl-summary.html
Container Types:
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Container:
Forward Container
Reverse Container
Random Access Container
Sequence
Front Insert Sequence
Back Insert Sequence
Associative Container
Simple Associative Container
Pair Associative Container
Sorted Associative Container
Multiple Associative Container
Container Types mapped to Standard Containers
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std::vector: Sequence Back Sequence Forward/Reverse/Random Container
std::deque: Sequence Front/Back Sequence Forward/Reverse/Random Container
std::list: Sequence Front/Back Sequence Forward/Reverse Container
std::set: Sorted/Simple/Unique Associative Container Forward Container
std::map: Sorted/Pair/Unique Associative Container Forward Container
std::multiset: Sorted/Simple/Multiple Associative Container Forward Container
std::multimap: Sorted/Pair/Multiple Associative Container Forward Container