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Vstr: C string library designed to work optimally with vector I/O

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Re: Vstr: C string library designed to work optimally with vector I/O

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Post by saagarjha »

leetcrew wrote: post #10
kevingadd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your strings are short that's basically O(1), which could be nice for some workloads - enums, json keys, etc.

if all your strings are of size < c, you can do any string operation on a single string in constant time.

There are certain (randomized) operations that you can’t…

Re: Vstr: C string library designed to work optimally with vector I/O

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Post by optimuspaul »

robobro wrote: post #17
optimuspaul wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2006 being the last update makes me not want to use it. But I suspect it is a stable library that doesn't need much update. I'm just getting back into c/c++ development and I'm very interested in libraries like these.

> 2006 being the last update makes me not want to use it. Why

security concerns, might be unfounded, but something to consider
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