Erik, thanks a lot for review, I'll respond in details somewhat later
(in an hour or two).  Just some minor observations.  Regarding more
generic approach: I thought of treading buffer to fill into
string-specific write methods which would allow us to get rid of
flattening completely.  Probably would investigate it.  And one thing
I forgot in this version: I should shortcut copying after
flattening---if string gets flat, it'd be possible to copy it with one
move.  Will update a CL when responding to your comments.

yours,
anton.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> LGTM.  I can't help thinking we could make this more general, but so far I
> haven't come up with a nice scheme myself.
>
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002
> File src/api.cc (right):
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002#newcode2448
> Line 2448: // TODO(antonm): consider some fancier ways (like Duff's).
> Duff's Device is only useful for IO ports, not for real memory.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002#newcode2480
> Line 2480: i::StringShape shape(*str);
> I have been meaning to get rid of StringShape because the performance
> benefits were very minimal while the risk of errors was rather large.
> If the benefit here is measurable I would encourage you to make a new
> scope for the shape so that it goes out of scope before the string
> flattening below.  This will make it harder for someone to accidentally
> use it after a flattening or GC has made it invalid.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002#newcode2483
> Line 2483: switch (shape.representation_tag()) {
> You should switch on the full representation tag here so you avoid an if
> in each case.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002#newcode2499
> Line 2499: if (first_shape.representation_tag() == i::kSeqStringTag ||
> Consider making this a switch too.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031/diff/3001/3002#newcode2508
> Line 2508: if (second->length() == 0) {
> How about 'int second_length = second->length()'.  That saves you
> looking it up more than once.  Then you can do
> if (second_length <= 1) {
>  bool only_from_first = (end < length - second_length)
> and you can combine the two branches.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/248031
>

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