2008/8/20 Ali Sabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:10 -0400, Yu Feng wrote: >> > Is there any particular reason that GLib doesn't provide a ref-counted >> > string and a ref-counted array type? Lacking them in GLib makes the VALA >> > language a real pain. >> >> You could just wrap simple GObjects around GString and GPtrArray. > > Wouldn't that be overkill ? do we need signals and properties for strings > and arrays ? maybe GLib/GObject should have something like GstMiniObject > that only provides reference counting and no signals/properties ?
It's quite easy to make an immutable refcounted string with GValue. This should be quite a bit lighter than a GObject implementation. Fwiw, my code is here: http://vips.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vips/vips7/trunk/libsrc/iofuncs/meta.c?view=markup search for 'refstring'. John _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
