On 6/5/2013 8:42 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Topics covered: Interning, mutability, cost of creating string
objects, encoding UTF-8 versus UTF-16.
https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Strings
I would love to have been invited to this meeting. Was it announced
anywhere?
I absolutely agree that
On 6/7/13 6:43 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
On 6/5/2013 8:42 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Topics covered: Interning, mutability, cost of creating string
objects, encoding UTF-8 versus UTF-16.
https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Strings
I would love to have been invited to this meeting. Was it a
On 6/7/13 9:43 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
I would love to have been invited to this meeting. Was it announced
anywhere?
It sort of grew out of an IRC conversation over the course of 20 mins or
so. :(
* Gecko has mutable strings and this is bad for performance
I'd like to understand/c
On 6/7/2013 10:03 AM, Patrick Walton wrote:
Was there discussion about whether string buffers should be refcounted
or GCed (or copied, but I'm pretty sure that would cause memory
explosion)?
Ref counting versus GC is determined on a case-by-case basis in Servo.
There's no one-size-fits-al
On 6/7/2013 11:27 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
My context here is things like the code I changed in
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e5cc69819435 which was in
theory trying to follow best practices (calling SetCapacity, etc).
But then it also did appends one character at a time and each
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> Immutable strings sound good to me.
>
> How hard would it be to add UTF-8 strings to Spidermonkey? JSString already
> has a lot of "modes", perhaps one more wouldn't hurt :-). I'm imagining
> that for anything that required UTF-16 (charAt
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