Containers

Per Nordlöw per.nordlow at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 20:48:10 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 00:52:04 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> You seem to be confused. The C++11 standard prohibits 
> std::string from using COW. Existing C++ implementations were 
> using COW, and getting out of it was what was a disaster 
> (notably, there were breaking ABI changes, which the C++ 
> ecosystem is not well suited to handle).

In what ways was it a disaster? Because most strings are small 
enough to benefit from the small string optimization?


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