Re: talk on XPCOM and String APIs

[Neil]

L. David Baron wrote:


our string APIs (a bit about what the internal string APIs do and why and how 
to use them)
 

I don't think we currently return terminated strings for string tail or 
1-arg substring of a terminated string, I'm sure we could but there 
doesn't seem to be a big demand for it. One workaround for 
Substring(foo, N) is to directly construct an nsDependentString(foo, N).


I had also pondered as to whether we should use literal strings for 
static atoms; I think they're currently some sort of dummy shared buffer.


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talk on XPCOM and String APIs

[L. David Baron]

During a Layout work week in Taipei last week, I gave a talk on:
 (1) some bits of XPCOM and its history that I thought were worth
 talking about
 (2) our string APIs (a bit about what the internal string APIs do
 and why and how to use them)
(roughly a half hour on each topic)

Since others might be interested, it's at:
https://air.mozilla.org/xpcom-and-internal-strings-in-gecko/

-David

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