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From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
December 29, 2001 21:51
Subject:
Re: Large string patch
Message ID:
20011230055359.GA11329@netthink.co.uk
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:25:33PM -1000, David & Lisa Jacobs wrote:
> First, I want to apologize for the size of this patch. I normally try to
> make bite size changes but this one just touched too many things. I still
> have a few enhancements to make but wanted to get this in before anyone else
> started hacking on the same pieces.
>
> This patch had a number of goals.
>
> * Expand the strings test suite to be more complete
> * Make string commands more consistent (i.e, now the only string command
> that actually changes the original is chopn)
> * Significantly reduce the number of memory allocations and eliminate
> reallocations.
I like this a lot, but I'm not sure I'm happy with the idea of removing
the "interpreter" passing from the string allocation/deallocation stuff.
I'd ask why you've done that, but, when I think about it, I'm not entirely
sure why we pass the interpreter in there in the first place. Dan?
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