> I’m not sure I’d want that either, though. If the original string was a > 200-page dissertation and you took a one-word substring from it, it doesn’t > seem reasonable to keep the whole 200-page dissertation all in RAM just to > keep the one-word substring around.
But that's a very old problem that's been dealt with in numerous ways over the years. It could easily be addressed as an implementation detail. The key point however is that CFString/NSString are nowhere near that smart, and they're not likely to be (GNUstep or others aside). If you're dealing with a large chunk of text like a dissertation then you're probably dealing with a lot of other elements as well, and using much higher-order objects to represent things. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
