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[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/26/2016 04:32 PM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> * Would it support implicit sharing (copy-on-write)? What about
> sub-strings?

Yes, COW. Substrings will be managed COW-ish as well (no copy upon 
substring extraction).

> * Will concatenations be fast?

No, it will copy (i.e. no multiple segments management). It will be of 
course optimized as much as we can.

> * Would this have value for compile time string operations, mixin's, etc.?

Not planned.

>> RFC: what primitives should RCStr have?
>
> String may have a few that are worth supporting:
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html

Good list. Thanks!


Andrei