> Has anyone considered whether copy-on-write semantics would be useful > for safeBuffers?
Or getting rid of them entirely? I'm not sure that wouldn't be less error prone than reference counting, but maybe I'm unusually allergic to it. > I'm not particularly familiar with the code base, so I'm not sure how > invasive this would be, and whether it is likely to yield any real > benefit. Before I contemplate undertaking an analysis, I'm wondering > Berin or anyone else has any thoughts as to whether it's likely to be > worthwhile. I'm pretty familiar with some of the code base, but I've never profiled it. When you're competing/compatrng with Java crypto, you can do a lot of sub-optimal things and still look like you're blazing in comparison. -- Scott
