At 3:09 PM -0400 5/21/02, Mike Lambert wrote:
>But I think the strstart is a better idea regardless. It's what perl5 did
>anyway, isn't it?
That's not necessarily an endorsement of an idea as good... :)
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Dan
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> Actually, we don't. (Sez the man catching up on altogether too much
> mail) Since we're putting the COW stuff at the tail end, substrings
> of COW strings are fine. You set the bufstart to where the substring
> starts, buflen set so it goes to the end of the original buffer, and
> the string len
At 11:11 AM -0700 5/21/02, Steve Fink wrote:
>On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:38:45PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 5:27 PM + 5/21/02, "Peter Gibbs" (via RT) wrote:
>> > > I think I'd like these differently. STRING is a subclass of Buffer,
>> >> and the bufstart and buflen fields in Buffers p
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:38:45PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 5:27 PM + 5/21/02, "Peter Gibbs" (via RT) wrote:
> > > I think I'd like these differently. STRING is a subclass of Buffer,
> >> and the bufstart and buflen fields in Buffers point to the actual
> >> start of memory and length o
At 5:27 PM + 5/21/02, "Peter Gibbs" (via RT) wrote:
> > I think I'd like these differently. STRING is a subclass of Buffer,
>> and the bufstart and buflen fields in Buffers point to the actual
>> start of memory and length of allocated data. I'd rather keep it that
>> way, and have the 're
> I think I'd like these differently. STRING is a subclass of Buffer,
> and the bufstart and buflen fields in Buffers point to the actual
> start of memory and length of allocated data. I'd rather keep it that
> way, and have the 'real' string length and string start be extra
> fields in the STRIN
At 4:14 PM + 5/21/02, "Peter Gibbs" (via RT) wrote:
>* New field 'buffer' in STRING points to the start of the allocated buffer.
>I have put this field immediately after the Buffer fields, in case we want
>to create a generic subclass of Buffer with the same functionality
>* The existing 'bufs
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Attached is another patch to implement copy-on-write strings.
Summary of changes
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