Extra memory cost, which would hit all allocated strings, also those short ones. For some applications, which use millions of small strings this would be unacceptable hit.
2007/11/30, Alan McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A thought struck me while i was dozing on the plane on the way home from the > summit. > > Since strings are immutable, shouldn't it be possible to compute the > hashcode once and store it rather than recomputing it over and over again? > Is there some really obvious reason that i can't think of that would make > this a bad idea? > > Alan. > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > -- Kamil Skalski http://nazgul.omega.pl _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
