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Re: New STL implementation from SGI
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New STL implementation from SGI
- From: Thomas Kunert <kunert at physik dot tu-dresden dot de>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:32:55 +0200
- Organization: TU Dresden
- References: <012c01bdae21$4b3c03a0$a8a01dcb@animal.ihug.co.nz>
I hope this doesn't sound too stupid:
What is the purpose of reference-counted strings? For portable code, one
cannot depend on fast copy-operations and if one writes code especially
for egcs, rope is better anyway. In neither case reference counting
would be very useful.
--
Thomas Kunert