G'day all. On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:18:23PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
> Three questions: > > 1. Which'll be faster? It depends on the application, but my money is on mutable strings built on top of an immutable buffer. That's based on looking at my own string-based Perl code, a lot of which is substring extraction (usually by regular expression). It may pay off if a string and its substrings can share implementation. > 2. Which'll be simpler? Immutable strings are definitely simpler, when you have garbage collection. > 3. Which is more important? At the risk of stating the obvious, it is more important for the interface to be complete. Cheers, Andrew Bromage
