Re: Ann: Natools.Chunked_Strings, beta 1

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:27 +0100, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> a écrit:
> Do you have some speed/memory comparison between your Chunked_String and
> GNAT Unbounded_String?
>
> Pascal.
Probably not relevant as a generality: depends on string lengths.

By the way, I feel the original message is based on erroneous assumptions  
about implementations of Ada.Strings.Unbounded. Nothing in the RM requires  
an implementations to use a single array for unbounded strings, and on the  
opposite, it says `type Unbounded_String is private;`.

At least for that reason, I feel this would be even better to stick to the  
exact same interface as the one of Ada.Strings.Unbounded. If that's  
another implementation of Ada.Strings.Unbounded, then, this should expose  
the same interface. This way, the client side could easily use one or the  
other via static polymorphism.

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