sso tradeoffs

[Paolo Carlini]

Howard Hinnant wrote:

> <shrug>  These are just my musings.  I know a lot of good and hard 
> work has been put into the current sso_string.h.  And I'm confident 
> that it will blow away the ref-counted design.  But here are some 
> further considerations...

Another preliminary thought: as you have noticed, this is a "versatile"
string (nothing particularly sophisticated from that point of view, but,
anyway...): this means that, irrespective of the opinions about your
design, you are certainly welcome to constribute a new base class, which
we can deliver in the next releases. You are also welcome to alter (a
bit ;) the infrastructure to suit your needs. As far as I'm concrened,
even having it as default for ext/vstring.h would not be such a big issue.

Paolo.