Re: talk on XPCOM and String APIs

2014-03-26 Thread Neil
L. David Baron wrote: our string APIs (a bit about what the internal string APIs do and why and how to use them) I don't think we currently return terminated strings for string tail or 1-arg substring of a terminated string, I'm sure we could but there doesn't seem to be a big demand for i

talk on XPCOM and String APIs

2014-03-25 Thread L. David Baron
During a Layout work week in Taipei last week, I gave a talk on: (1) some bits of XPCOM and its history that I thought were worth talking about (2) our string APIs (a bit about what the internal string APIs do and why and how to use them) (roughly a half hour on each topic) Since other