COW vs. in-place.

kris foo at bar.com
Tue Aug 1 14:11:38 PDT 2006


Andrei Khropov wrote:
> Dawid Ciężarkiewicz wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'd rather wait till const/immutability in D problem will be resolved. Don't
>>forget that additional "option" is runtime cost. There are some
>>propositions of const/immutability that could help providing compile time
>>information to deal with your proposition.
> 
> 
> I agree. Adding additional parameter doesn't seem to be a good idea and also
> raises the question whether the default behavior will be to copy or not and
> also introduces possibility of subtle errors when passing the flag was
> mistakenly omitted.
> 


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