Subject: Re: [boost] [string] Yet another Unicode string class
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-14 14:08:12


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:53, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> SBO makes moving a string costly.
>

How bug a buffer does SBO usually use?

For UTF-8, I figured it'd be maybe 4 or 8 bytes, to usually avoid the
heap when putting individual "characters" in strings, as is needed to
avoid problems like the current toupper('ß').