C++Now! 2012 slides

[Artur Skawina]

On 06/07/12 22:46, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 2) Immutable strings have performance cost ... like tracking ownership and reference counting - unless you have GC by your side, in which case it's cheap and legal :)

Until you have enough of them and your program starts to spend most of its
time trying to GC them. [1]

artur

[1[ OK, so you might need 13M+ strings totalling 450M+. Still.. ;)