On 04/07/2012 11:22, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:56 PM, news.gmane.org <lukester_null@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
For me, avoiding the use of ref-counted G++ strings.
Isn't G++ going to fix their strings?
One day ... no good for now ("now" for me being until RHEL5 is no longer supported).
g++'s vstring seems to have performance almost as good as STLport's (and way better than boost's) from the limited testing I've done.
Does Boost have a string type?
Yes; I was referring to boost::container::string.
I should mention that the performance of boost.format is not an issue as it's not used in any time critical code - just a while load of pain if unable to support alternative strings, hence my hackery.
If performance is not an issue, why would you use another string type?
Performance of boost.format is not important; of strings themselves it very much is. Regards Luke.