From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-19 09:43:42
At 04:30 AM 9/19/2004, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
>
>Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
>
>> I've been working on a small library - an immutable C++
>> string. Now it is in usable state and has been put in use in
>> a couple of real projects.
>> Although it needs further polishing, I would like to know is
>> there any interest in such a library?
>>
>> Here is the link: http://conststring.sourceforge.net/
>
>Just wanted to mention here, that I've used const_string as a plug in
>replacement for std::string for my Wave library and succeeded without any
>further problems. Moreover, the const_string class gave a perfomance
boost
>of about 20% if compared to the flex_string and about 100% if compared to
>the std::string (I can provide the concrete numbers, if somebody is
>interested). But these numbers certainly very specific to Wave and its
>applications.
100% gets my attention, that's for sure!
Could you give a small example of a typical usage or two? I'd like to form
an opinion as to how common the usage is likely to be.
--Beman