sso tradeoffs

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

| > Thanks for your thoughtful comments Paolo.  Getting at least two  
| > brains (and hopefully a few more) thinking about these tradeoffs was  
| > exactly what I was hoping for.  I'm not sure what time frame is going  
| > to work for me to submit an alternative sso, but it is on my to-do  
| > list.  Perhaps with two alternative sso's that we can easily switch  
| > between, and/or tweak tuning parameters, we can get some of that real- 
| > world data you speak of.
| 
| It's my hope that versa string can be taught to use different data
| encapsulation techniques, and with a bit of effort, support multiple
| types. I haven't looked at this code in detail yet, however.
| 
| I would prefer that approach, if possible, to a bunch of different
| extension string classes. 
| 
| One thing that might be useful would be to come up with docs that
| describe what would be optimal, strategy-wise, for different types of
| string usage. We have known cases where empty strings should be small,
| cases for long strings, short strings, MT strings, etc etc.

I just received this mail sent on the 3rd of november 2005....

-- Gaby