2008/8/27 Amos Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > memory region doesn't. A string is generally a representation of > printable data; a memory region isn't." > > .. particularly that last sub-sentence.
> Um, and per your: > " Would you use a "String" as the reference counted type for say, the > memory store? " > > Yes. I would. I really don't like Java, but their object serialization > concept can be made very efficient for specific cases like HTTP Header > storage. Completely removing any duplicate parsing (speed!) on load of > object bytes from disk etc. Well sure, and we need to do something long-term about the header vs reply body storage in store objects, but thats a later problem. Parsing the HTTP headers should be a bloody quick process. > Minimal size cost is disk space of ((2xINT + PTR)*N + INT) though, where N > is the number of tokens in the array of Strings. +(PTR * H + INT) if its > done as a full tree (where H == header count). But you miss my earlier point - would you use _string_ for storing the _reply_ information in the memory store? The reply headers? sure. The reply body chunks? :) Adrian
