From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: 1999/11/06
Date: 1999-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911062253480.12126-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn8236e7.sd.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de
On 4 Nov 1999, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Brian Rogoff wrote:
> >Thanks for the code, but I already know how to do this with a type whose
> >public view is limited and its private view, not limited. I was wondering
> >if I can do this entirely with minimal potential copying.
>
> Of course it is possible. The idea is to deal with a pointer to a dynamic
> array only. The Format function allocates and the To_String function
> releases the memory.
But then you have to heap allocate. That seems rather heavy. I think
Matthew Heaney's suggestion is the most promising for reducing copying,
but it appears too "naughty" to me. I'll just live with the copying.
--Brian
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-01 0:00 Return by reference Brian Rogoff
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-04 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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