Hi Dean, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Hi everyone, I just wanted to give a heads up to say that I'm actually now trying to get the Boost.Chain idea a little more weight by defining the interface of the type -- as you might remember, "chain" was pretty much the immutable string. I wanted to point those interested over to the Git repository and project page over on Github (https://github.com/mikhailberis/chain) and either watch the repository or submit pull requests if you fancy filling in some of the blanks there.
I wonder, would it be a good idea to put together some sort of "string benchmark" suite? After all the previous discussion of string implementation styles, and the similar COW-or-not discussions in the XInt review, and considering the existing variations in string implementations between standard libraries, maybe it would be a good idea to try to quantify things? Perhaps this has already been done by someone? (Personally, although I use std::string a lot, it is almost never in an inner loop or other critical code.) Regards, Phil.