On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you choose to atomize a char sequence, it incurs costs. > > 1. Time: you have to check if the char sequence has been previously > atomized. In our implementation, this involves a hash table lookup, > which includes a hash computation. > [...] > Hopefully these costs are smaller than the potential savings. > [...] > 2. Space: if the char sequence occurs N times, you avoid storing it N-1 times.
And these are the only two places where the length of the string is relevant. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
