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From: | Michael Livshin |
Subject: | Re: food for thought re: string representations ["Boehm, Hans" <address@hidden>] RE: Re: [gclist] ref-counting performance cost |
Date: | 12 Oct 2000 08:39:47 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) |
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. -- Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen sticks. -- Thant Tessman
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