Re: [boost] String thought

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-07 17:03:15

Matthew Hurd wrote:

> Any lib related to Boost that uses expression templates for string or buffer
> operations to minimize the temporary objects?  Only thinking of
> concatenation but I guess it might apply elsewhere.
> 
> Might be a neat addition to the string algorithm library.

I would think so ;)
However, I'm not sure how realistic this could be.
Just consider this:

for ( int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i)
     s += "s";

In cases like this, expression templates would be useless, IMO.

Anyway, Pavol, any thoughts?

Best,
John

> 
> Any thoughts on retrofitting such a best onto std::string?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt.
> 
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