From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA01819; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:44:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02961 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:44:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dewberry.cc.columbia.edu (dewberry.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.68]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7QDiZb06052 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:44:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from there (tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu [156.111.84.180]) by dewberry.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA23445 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208261344.JAA23445@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Oleg To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] internal representation of string Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:46:40 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi What is the internal representation of string? Is it basically a C-string [with or without terminating '\0'] plus integer storing its size? Or is it something more sophisticated? Also, do functions like String.sub implement copy-on-write mechanism or do they copy when they are called? TIA Oleg ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners