From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: null terminated strings
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:46:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400C260B.8050306@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040119120825.0a4d48c8@zima.bbn.com>
Ken Anderson wrote:
> In Java, which does copy-on-write
String (including substrings) are immutable, so they cannot be written.
The implementation of the StringBuffer class does do copy-on-write, but
that doesn't affect substrings.
> i often find myself carefully copying the substrings so they don't share structure.
Why? The only reason I can think of is garbage collection: A shared
substring prevents the base from being collected.
> This is because of things like:
> - i don't know how long the underlying string (char array actuall) is.
So?
> Java only has one kind of string, which is fairly heavy weight. For example, the string "" takes 36 bytes:
>
>>(describe "")
> is an instance of java.lang.String
>
> // from java.lang.String
> value: [C@d42d08
> offset: 0
> count: 0
> hash: 0
This depends on the implementation, and the version of the
implementation.
GCJ uses for "":
object header (4 bytes on 32-but systems)
private Object data; /* points to itself in this case */
private int boffset; /* offset of first char within data */
int count; /* number of character */
private int cachedHashCode;
/* chars follow if data==this */
(The data and boffset fields are only accessed by native C++ code.)
Total 20 bytes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-05 17:40 argz SMOB Brian S McQueen
2004-01-06 19:54 ` Daniel Skarda
2004-01-08 16:44 ` Brian S McQueen
2004-01-09 14:08 ` Daniel Skarda
2004-01-12 16:08 ` Brian S McQueen
2004-01-15 18:43 ` Brian S McQueen
2004-01-16 0:21 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-16 9:10 ` null terminated strings (was: argz SMOB) Andreas Voegele
[not found] ` <1074245327.6733.9.camel@localhost>
2004-01-16 10:17 ` null terminated strings Andreas Voegele
2004-01-16 11:02 ` Roland Orre
2004-01-16 12:24 ` Andreas Voegele
2004-01-16 18:20 ` Brian S McQueen
2004-01-16 20:36 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-16 21:06 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-16 21:02 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-16 21:27 ` Roland Orre
2004-01-19 17:28 ` Ken Anderson
2004-01-19 18:46 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2004-01-19 19:16 ` Ken Anderson
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