From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Differences between Array and Strings
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:10:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBC96FB.1030703@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D972AB2CBE@Remus.metastack.local>
On 04/30/11 06:34, David Allsopp wrote:
> Radu Grigore wrote:
>> On Friday, April 29, 2011 12:51:59 PM UTC+1, louis....@ens.fr wrote:
>>>> let l () = "1" ;;
>>>> [...]
>>>> l()==l();;
>>> # val l : unit -> string = <fun>
>>> # [...]
>>> # - : bool = true
>>
>> Is there a good reason for this behavior?
>
> Whether it's good is debatable, but in most instances you don't want a fresh string being allocated each time for a constant value as it would be a waste of time and memory (most strings are used immutably).
I concur.
And the strings that we mutate are buffers which are not created from
string literals anyway.
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-30 23:09 UTC|newest]
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2011-04-30 11:03 ` Radu Grigore
2011-04-30 13:34 ` David Allsopp
2011-04-30 23:10 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2011-04-29 11:51 louis.jachiet
2011-04-29 14:36 ` David Allsopp
2011-04-30 14:06 ` Philippe Wang
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