Relaxing the definition of isSomeString and isNarrowString

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

24-Aug-2014 16:24, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
> (Speaking of which: Some, but not all, types in std.container use
> reference counting. One other great area of improvement would be to
> guarantee that everything is std.container is reference counted.
> Containers are the perfect candidate for reference counting - they are
> typically large enough to make the reference counting overhead
> negligible by comparison with the typical work on them.)
>

The rest of post is mostly in line with my reasoning (except for nobody 
measures stuff, it's just bullshit).

Speaking of data-structures I find just about the opposite. Most data 
structure are small, which must be the fact so fondly used by C++ 
vector: small-string optimization. Only very few data-structures are 
large in a given program, and usually correspond to some global tables 
and repositories. Others are either short lived byproduct of input 
processing or are small data-sets attached to some global entity.

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Dmitry Olshansky