Re: ddd-3.3.9-test2 build feedback

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: ddd-3.3.9-test2 build feedback, Arnaud Desitter said (at...:

> > > Tim Mooney wrote:
> >
> > The performance improvements are hard to miss.
>
> There was a lot of potential for "easy" improvements. Most changes between
> ddd 3.3.7 and ddd 3.3.9 relate to speed up.
>
> Going futher will be more difficult.
> The string class used by ddd is not reference counted. Switching to
> std::string in the few locations shown by a profiler could improve speed.

Would there be any benefit to completely switching ddd to std::string, and
getting rid of the custom/GNU string class?  Would that be a difficult
process, or would it just be a lot of relatively straightforward code
replacement?

> Anyway it is good to know that you noticed.

I personally don't care for "artificial version inflation", but the
changes seem significant enough so that you may want to call the official
release 3.4.0 or perhaps 3.5.0.

Tim
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