>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>> I for one use s/^...// quite often in the knowledge that it is optimized to
>> just move a pointer and not cause a copy of the string.
DS> We'll still be doing that. (The leftover memory will get cleaned
DS> up when we GC) The bigger issue is when we need to move the
DS> pointer back because we've stuck something back on the front of
DS> the string.
do you mean the buffer pointer itself gets bumped when you chop off the
beginning? how would that allow GC since the collector wouldn't know
about the offset pointer? maybe there is a GC trick to do that. having
the offset means you don't lose the main buffer pointer so GC will be
simpler.
uri
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