On 12-09-05 1:10 PM, Gareth Smith wrote:
The advantage of such an arrangement is that str would be fixed size and
~str/@str/&str would be consistent with other types.
Is this actually a reasonable system?
That's what they used to be. People passed them by-value too much and we
made too many copies, and balked at the double-indirection implied by
passing around an &str or such. That also doesn't handle the fixed-size,
constant-memory and substring-slice use-cases.
The current scheme is a very delicate balance between a large number of
pressures; I think it's about the best we're going to get.
-Graydon
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