Lightweight Strings

Lightweight Strings

[Nordlöw]

How lightweight are strings in Emacs, if they don't contain any
properties?

Is there support for lighweight strings?

/Nordlöw

Re: Lightweight Strings

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

> How lightweight are strings in Emacs, if they don't contain any
> properties?
>
> Is there support for lighweight strings?

Why do you care?

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

Re: Lightweight Strings

[Stefan Monnier]

> How lightweight are strings in Emacs, if they don't contain any
> properties?

If you look at emacs/src/lisp.h and search for Lisp_String, you'll see
that strings are represented as a 4-word object:
- size in chars
- size in bytes
- pointer to text-properties interval tree
- pointer to the beginning of the string's content


        Stefan

Re: Lightweight Strings

[Nordlöw]

On 9 Nov, 03:02, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > How lightweight are strings in Emacs, if they don't contain any
> > properties?
>
> If you look at emacs/src/lisp.h and search for Lisp_String, you'll see
> that strings are represented as a 4-word object:
> - size in chars
> - size in bytes
> - pointer to text-properties interval tree
> - pointer to the beginning of the string's content
>
>         Stefan

Thanks,
Per