On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Vasily Chekalkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > After recent digging into GC guts, work on immutable strings, masak++ > work on strings building I would like to propose next changes in > parrot core. > > 1. Remove "buffers" (which is string-like mutables). They adds a lot > of complexity to GC (finding them, compacting, etc). And they are > sharing same storage as strings which isn't good in immutable strings > world. > > 2. Introduce Buffer/BufferIterator PMCs. Buffer will have methods like: > a) .push_byte, .push_word for pushing sized integers into it. (May > be .push_u8, .push_u16 will be better) > b) .get_byte, etc to get sized integer at position > c) .set_byte > b) .encode(encoding) to "convert" buffer into String with predefined > encoding. Actually it will just create such string and validate it.
I'd like to see this integrated with ManagedStruct/UnManagedStruct (or whatever they become) at some point as their functionality is very similar (a view over an arbitrary section of memory). _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
