On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:25:33PM -1000, David & Lisa Jacobs wrote: > First, I want to apologize for the size of this patch. I normally try to > make bite size changes but this one just touched too many things. I still > have a few enhancements to make but wanted to get this in before anyone else > started hacking on the same pieces. > > This patch had a number of goals. > > * Expand the strings test suite to be more complete > * Make string commands more consistent (i.e, now the only string command > that actually changes the original is chopn) > * Significantly reduce the number of memory allocations and eliminate > reallocations.
I like this a lot, but I'm not sure I'm happy with the idea of removing the "interpreter" passing from the string allocation/deallocation stuff. I'd ask why you've done that, but, when I think about it, I'm not entirely sure why we pass the interpreter in there in the first place. Dan? -- What would happen if you ran up to Hitler and mentioned Usenet? - Kibo