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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking. "When all else fails, get a bigger hammer." In the world of C++, that can mean only one thing: casting. Shame on you for such thoughts. Where do you get these ideas?

But why should a binary search through a (sorted) vector offer better performance than a binary search through a binary search tree? Because some things are trite but true, and one of them is that size matters.

...if Einstein is right and God is in the details, reality requires that we sometimes get religion.