Ian Holsman wrote: >On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 10:39, Sander Striker wrote: > ...
>>In subversion svn_string_t was introduced, because it wasn't in APR. >>It does (AFAIK) exactly what brian describes. >> >is there any reason NOT to introduce this into the APR now? >we could then slowly migrate strings to this > I'm in favor of including it in APR, but opposed to trying to retrofit it into Apache before 2.0 GA. My rationale for this is that, even with a reference-counted string class, we'll have to be extremely careful not to make performance worse when doing a major change in the string handling. (And we're close to having all the really significant strlen and strdup inefficiencies fixed in httpd-2.0 already.) --Brian
