So I have had a few ides that have fallen flat so take this with a gain of salt. What if some string methods did not return strings but a struct with pointers into strings. Strings are immutable so there should not be case were an existing string would change and invalidate a view. Consider the c…

This idea does come up every now and then. It’s a really clever way to negate a lot of intermediate string allocations, to be sure. However, I believe the reason it hasn’t been implemented is that as long as any StringView based on it remains in memory, the original String cannot be GCed. In a lot …

More discussion here: [image] More slices, less alloc? Crystal Contrib Maybe it could be faster with some concept of just “pointing” to a Slice (i.e. sub slice) within a different (parent) String object? Java used to do this optimization. It ended up being problematic f…

If the idea is to reduce allocations for strings used multiple times, could look into StringPool - Crystal 1.10.1 . Maybe not applicable here, but it is one of those types that is easy to miss.

String views or some pointer into strings

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HertzDevil December 3, 2023, 6:35am 3

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