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Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:22:06 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:09:41 -0400
>
> >> The need for an indirection (a String_Object has to hold a pointer to an
> >> sdata object rather than being able to keep its payload directly in the
> >> Lisp_String object (using FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER))
> > Why is that a problem?
>
> It slows down every string access, and increases the heap size of every
> string (currently they're something like N bytes of payload plus
> 5 words where 2 of those 5 words are due to the extra indirection).
>
> For a feature that's almost never used, I think it's pretty costly.
It can be (and was) used by memory-allocation infrastructure,
especially with very large strings. Are we sure we want to lose it
for slowdown that should be hardly perceptible?
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, (continued)
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/07
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Paul Eggert, 2018/09/07
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/08
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Noam Postavsky, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Noam Postavsky, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/10
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/09
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/10
- Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/10