Re: food for thought re: string representations ["Boehm, Hans" <address@hidden>] RE: Re: [gclist] ref-counting performance cost

[Michael Livshin]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11 Oct 2000, Michael Livshin wrote:
> 
> > just caught this on the GC mailing list.  look for the comments on the 
> > C++ string class near the end.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the problems with the C++ string class originate
> from the following problem:
> 
> Take the expression
>   s[pos] = c;
> where s is a string.  How do you realize a copy-on-write semantics for
> s?

fwiw, I was mostly alluding to his comments about COW and threads.
sorry for not being more specific.

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