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Re: Adding moving to basic_string
Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>Move semantics could make it as efficient as this (but less ugly):
>
>a = ((b+c) += d);
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>
Humm, maybe now I see your *real* point ;)
We arrive in both cases to the above situation. Then things are
completely different. In the move-semantics + short-string optimization
case, we can often spare reallocating (b+c) (if there is sufficient
space available for d too) but then the final assignment is expensive.
In the reference-counted case b+c is technically shared, unfortunately,
and will be always reallocated *during* operator+=; then the final
assignment is cheap.
Paolo.