From: "Brian Pane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:54 PM
> Ian Holsman wrote: > > >On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 10:39, Sander Striker wrote: > > > ... > > >>In subversion svn_string_t was introduced, because it wasn't in APR. > >>It does (AFAIK) exactly what brian describes. > >> > >is there any reason NOT to introduce this into the APR now? > >we could then slowly migrate strings to this > > > > I'm in favor of including it in APR, but opposed to trying to > retrofit it into Apache before 2.0 GA. My rationale for this > is that, even with a reference-counted string class, we'll have > to be extremely careful not to make performance worse when doing > a major change in the string handling. (And we're close to having > all the really significant strlen and strdup inefficiencies fixed > in httpd-2.0 already.) +1 ... a STRINGS branch in apr would be good while we experiment.
