Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] FW: body copies on http::client::post (was: RE: Poll: Next Features to Implement)

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Kim,

Sorry it took me a while to respond, I've been wrestling with OS
upgrade issues in my quest to try out GCC 4.5. See some of my thoughts
below.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 07:50, Dean Michael Berris
> <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Someday when my development machine, time, and other things permit, I
>> might work on an immutable string class -- similar to what the D
>> programming language has -- as a replacement to std::string. Although
>> std::string is the standard, I don't mind writing a better string
>> class at some point that "does the right thing".
>
> I went looking a couple of months ago and found two -- one STL-style
> and one less idiomatic:
>

Cool, thanks!

> - http://conststring.sourceforge.net/

This one looks interesting. I wonder if it uses a shared_ptr
underneath though. I'll take a look at that implementation to see if
it fits with what I was thinking about.

> - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/fix_str.aspx
>

Yeah, this one isn't so idiomatic. I like the first one better.

> Maybe you can get some ideas from there.
>

Definitely, thanks for the pointers! :)

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com