On 01.06.2016 22:43, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 06/01/2016 04:28 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 01.06.2016 17:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 06/01/2016 11:24 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
It seems more like RCString is an optimization for certain types of
programs than what you'd want to use by default.
You'll always want to use it. The small string optimization will make it
compelling for all applications. -- Andrei
- Why is it dependent on the allocation strategy or on the type of the
data?
Not getting this.
...
The small string optimization also works for GC-allocated strings. Why
do I always want to use RCString instead of the corresponding GCString?
(Also, the same approach can be applied to other arrays with value
semantics.)
