How to initialise a STL vector/list with a class without invoking the copy constructor
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I have a C++ program that uses a std::list containing instances of a class. If I call e.g. myList.push_back(MyClass(variable));
it goes through the process of creating a temporary variable, and then immediately copies it to the vector, and afterwards deletes the temporary variable. This is not nearly as efficient as I want, and sucks when you need a deep copy.
I would love to have the constructor of my class new
something and not have to implement a copy constructor just to allocate my memory for the second time and waste runtime. I'd also rather not have to immediately find the class instance from the vector/list and then manually allocate the memory (or do something horrible like allocate the memory in the copy constructor itself).
Is there any way around this (I'm not using Visual Studio BTW)?
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