Dealing with Autodecode

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 01.06.2016 17:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 11:24 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> It seems more like RCString is an optimization for certain types of
>> programs than what you'd want to use by default.
>
> You'll always want to use it. The small string optimization will make it
> compelling for all applications. -- Andrei


- Why is it dependent on the allocation strategy or on the type of the data?

- It seems to be a pessimization if I'm taking a lot of small slices.

- It is undesirable if I later want to reference-compare those slices.