Re: [RFA] C++-ify parse_format_string

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 11/23/2017 09:13 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:

> I have a patch in some branch that does essentially the same thing, so
> I was able to compare our approaches.  In my version, I removed the
> big allocation that is shared among pieces, and made each piece have
> its own std::string.  Unless we want to keep the current allocation
> scheme for performance/memory usage reasons, I think that using
> std::strings simplifies things in the parse_format_string function.
> The format_pieces structure is replaced with an std::vector of
> format_piece.

Sounds like a step backwards to me.  If it simplifies things, then
it sounds like it might be because we're missing some utility,
like string_view or something like that.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves