Specializing STL algorithms so they automatically call efficient container member functions when available?

Not in the case of remove_if since the semantics are different. Std::remove_if doesn't actually erase anything from the container, whereas list::remove_if does, so you definitely don't want the former calling the latter.

It is not possible - the algorithms work with iterators, and iterators have no knowledge of the container object they refer to. Even if they did, there would be no way to determine at compile time whether a given iterator range refers to the whole of a container, so it could not be done by specialisation alone; there would need to be an extra runtime check.

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