Why D const is annoying
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed May 2 09:40:47 PDT 2012
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 15:21:31 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message
> news:op.wdokh6vteav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>> But many languages that *don't* have const/immutable do well
>> with this pattern (think Java strings).
>
> Java strings are pretty poor for performance though. :\
> You shouldn't be forced to choose between O(1) performance
> (versus O(n)) and the correctness of your program.
This is a false choice. The performance of Java strings (BTW,
which I don't think is that bad) is not tied to whether they are
immutable or not.
-Steve
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