I vote for mutable strings. Anything but immutable strings please!
Java sucks as a string manipulation engine because of their immutable String class. The best GC and JIT in the world can't save it. High performance Java parsers generally write their own mutable string class for this very reason. Now the question is - do you want threadsafe strings or non-threadsafe strings? If you want threadsafe mutable strings with a shared string buffer you'll have to deal with mutex overhead even in the single threaded case and performance suffers. Either that or you must provide a sort of abstract string base class and have both a threadsafe string implementation and non-threadsafe string implementation. Lots to think about. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/
