Re: Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/20/14, 11:01 AM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
How big overhead is an RC compared to a non-RC GC-free string
variant?

Ballpark would be probably 1.1-2.5x. But there's of course a bunch of 
variability.

Perhaps it would be nice to add a template parameter in RCXString
that makes the RC-optional?

Manual memory management is not part of its charter.

If I want a *non*-RC GC-free variant of string/wstring/dstring
what's the best way to define them?

I think you're back to malloc and free kind of stuff.

Would Array!char, Array!wchar, Array!dchar, be suitable
solutions? Of course these wouldn't utilize SSO. I'm asking
because Array is RandomAccess but string/wstring is not
byCodePoint.

Those are refcounted.


Andrei