Re: [Swig-devel] DOH String copy and memory utilization

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Josh Cherry wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, William S Fulton wrote:
> 
>>> I changed CopyString so that the new string's capacity is only as
>>> large as
>>> its length.  The result was a 25% decrease in SWIG memory
>>> consumption, at
>>> no significant cost in speed (it looks like it runs very slightly
>>> faster,
>>> perhaps due to elimination of the unnecessary copying mentioned above).
>>>
>> Sounds good to me. Running the entire test-suite for all languages you
>> possibly can would be a good idea for this kind of modification though.
> 
> I ran the tests for Python, Perl, ruby, and tcl with 1.3.31 and my
> change. The results were the same as for unmodified 1.3.31 (I see a Perl
> failure and two tcl failures even with the unmodified SWIG).
> 
> Here is my modified CopyString:
> 

I've committed this. Thanks a lot!

William