Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:59:08 -0500 From: Pete Becker Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:59:08 -0400 Message-ID: <2011051709590868667-pete@versatilecodingcom> References: <14571$4dd27b65$506c0d9c$5838@news.chello.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Why C++ is vastly superior to C User-Agent: Unison/2.1.4 Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-fj3iSuZdBMSW1K6ed56RB6TqsJzMGf/53FACQn8Po+xO34oYhGA5vdTOa4jTUzPaXF29RJ4tN6kGhSD!JP9ou0JvcW9DoY/VTXXaLl/3h33P3bunnuvcRDwD1nBcMo3PjOxDIGyNnp7QBdGT+9gQPTIM X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1715 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:5084 On 2011-05-17 09:43:00 -0400, Paul Brettschneider said: > > A good std::string implementation _will_ be in terms of a reference/pointer > for large strings. i.e. a reference-counted string? No, there was only one commercial implementation that did that, and now it's explicitly prohibited because of the complications that it introduces in multi-threaded code. -- Pete Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference (www.petebecker.com/tr1book)