Re: [boost] Re: [Libcwd-devel] libcwd and Boost

From: John Levon (levon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-30 11:37:52

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:27:58PM -0400, Rob Stewart wrote:

> > But that would add an additional copy
> > of the demangled name.
> 
> Yep.  There's no problem there.  Really.  We're talking about
> diagnostic code here.  Performance isn't an issue.

Demangling is not only used for diagnostic code. Think "nm" here.

Nonetheless, this desire to avoid a string copy seems like rampant
premature optimisation.

regards
john

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