* André Gillibert <metaentr...@gmail.com> schrieb:
> Ok. If you pass around this structure as a value.
> This indirectly increases the size of a data structure such as:
> struct MyClass
> {
> GCStr some_string;
> GCStr another_string;
> } ;
>
> And there are a lot of them...
<snip>
> Copying a pointer (e.g. 8 bytes on 64 bits platform) requires less
> code than copying a pointer and a char (which may occupy 16 bytes for
> alignment purposes).
True. Perhaps we can find an better platform/arch specific solutions
(and only use this approach on those where not better solution
is available). On 64bit, we perhaps could steal the most-upper bit.
cu
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