Re: New STL implementation from SGI

[Pieter Nagel <pnagel at epiuse dot co dot za>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Joe Buck wrote:

> Actually I suspect that the SGI version will be slower as well as require
> more memory in some applications: if copying strings from place to place
> is common, but concatenation is less common,

Ouch! I've been happily using strings to pass around megabyte-sized
blobs of data, but reading about the SGI string class makes me want
to run and reread the spec to check on how portable my use is - I
thought C++ strings were *supposed* to have reference countng
semantics.

I'm all for including different implementations of the string class.
How about renaming basic_string to shallow_copy_basic_string and
deep_copy_basic_string respectively, and then have a mechanism to
choose which one is typedefed to basic_string - thereby allowing one
to write code that uses *both*?

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