Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced
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HN comment orderWe on the Rust team got to speak about the lessons learned from the EASTL with Paul Pedriana (the author of much of it) while designing the Rust standard library. It's a significant influence on the proposed allocators API currently in RFC. The EASTL is worth looking at for anyone interested in designing libraries that work well in low-memory environments. (Much of this library was written with devices like the Nintendo DS in mind, which had 4 MB--4 MB!--of RAM…
It should be noted that Paul Pedriana, the original developer of EASTL and many other things, just recently passed away unexpectedly. He was an EA programming legend. Note of passing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/20296764839/posts/1015929527... EASTL paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227... Partial list of Paul's programming credits: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2...
Not only is this version updated over previous public releases, but it's also released under a more permissive license.
Whoa, that's actually really exciting to have a full, official release.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 388
- Total comments
- 140
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-09 | EASTL: Electronic Arts Standard Template Library | ingve | 16 | 1 |
| 2016-02-10 | EA's Standard Template Library Is Now Open Source | lentil_soup | 7 | 2 |
| 2016-02-10 | EASTL officially open sourced | maximilianburke | 10 | 1 |
| 2016-02-11 | Electronic Arts Standard Template Library | Polytonic | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-02-13 | Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open SourcedFirst breakout · Best thread | hising | 207 | 57 |
| 2021-08-04 | EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard LibraryLatest 20+ point return | optimalsolver | 144 | 79 |
| 2025-04-18 | Electronic Arts Standard Template Library | klaussilveira | 2 | 0 |