On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:37:08AM -0600, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
"Reece Dunn" <msclrhd@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:BAY24-F4KAputaSLGE800068dfb@hotmail.com...
Carlo Wood wrote:
Actually putting that text in a std::string and doing some work on it should be in user code imho.
This would be inefficient in most contexts. Especially if you have a complex filter chain with inbuilt buffers that are only concerned with character-by-character processing.
FWIW, the authors of the filtering proposal mentioned by Dietmar Kuehl -- JC van Winkel and John van Krieken -- tried an implementation of filtering in which filters communicate through std::strings, and found it had very poor performance.
Like I said, it should not be part of the library (but if one insists on using std::string - it should be in the users code). No need to make a whole thread of that remark when everyone agrees. -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>