Re: [boost] Boost super_string

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-12 14:47:44

On 10/12/06, Arkadiy Vertleyb <vertleyb_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]> wrote

> > So a core goal of the library is that you can
> > use super_string in some code and then seamlessly pass that instance to
> > existing interfaces written in terms of std::string for zero cost.
>
> Not exactly...  the cost would be runtime -- to allocate a copy of the
> string.  You wouldn't be able to pass anything other than "std::string" to
> "const std::string&" without copying it first, would you?

Anything derived from std::basic_string<char> would work too.  Super String is:

   template<class char_type >
   class basic_super_string : public std::basic_string<char_type>

So there would be no copies.

-- 
Caleb Epstein