On Aug 24, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > The wiki page says: > > [[[ > The difference between the version is if the length of the string is > included or not. Having the size given in the constructor makes the > constructor faster. Having the size also makes the code bigger, which > is a problem when the code is executed infrequently. > ]]] > > That description isn't 100% clear to me, but my reading of it is that > the ConstructFromLiteral version has the length of the string embedded > at the call site and therefore makes the code faster by increases the > code size.
I see. Maybe we can tweak the syntax to make it more clear that it's a size/speed tradeoff (wasn't obvious to me from the wiki or the source for the header). Cheers, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
