On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
> I strongly feel that varargs is a bad choice for C++ programs, using
> your proposed % syntax is much cleaner (as with L() and boost::format).
He actually told me the same thing when I suggested going back to this
:-). Maybe I agree with you guys... but I should say why I suggested
it. The thing is that for an API like:
query("blah") % foo % bar % baz
I feel rather uncomfortable unless we copy the foo/bar/baz strings
into the query object; there's no convention in general that the
string data should stay in scope longer than the query object, so we
need to make a local copy. With arguments, there's more of a
convention that I can pass stuff by reference or by pointer and that
reference/pointer will stay alive until the call finishes.
Since we shovel hundreds of megabytes through this interface, reducing
copying seems worthwhile. I guess we do always copy now, though, so
actually I guess I have no data on whether the win is valuable or not.
We spend a lot of time in sqlite, but I don't know where exactly.
-- Nathaniel
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