On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:59:08PM -0500, Michael L Maraist wrote: > 2) > Can we assume that a "buffer object" is ONLY accessible by a single > reverse-path-to-PMC? PMC's or array-buffers can point to other PMC's, so > it's possible to have multiple paths from the root to an object, but I'm > asking if, for example, we could use an algorithm that relied upon the fact > that it only has one direct parent.
That assumption would mean one could not directly share non-constant buffers between strings. There has been talk of having copy-on-write strings. -- Jason
