Graphics and memory opinions

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Dec-2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| Yeah, I think we discussed it, and I never did the work. But I was
| complaining about speed of loading, not memory usage. I know how to
| fix both of them, though: put the data into either std::vector or
| std::list. Let me see what the current sources are doing...

Wouldn't that be a lot of overhead for loading a large file of
numbers?  How much extra data would accompany each element in a
std::list of numbers?

jwe