Re: std::string and refcounting

From: red floyd (no.spam_at_here.dude)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:29:11 GMT

joe martin wrote:

> In recent discussions relating to what to use for a new project which
> integrated the work of two, previously seperate, teams we got to the
> subject of our respective string implementations. One team rolled
> their own strings while the other used the std::string. Reasons for
> using the home-grown strings(and vectors) were mainly refcounting and
> portabillity, but I thought that these days almost all STL
> implementations used refcounted strings and that the STL was available
> for most platforms.
>
> When we got back to test things out with my compiler (MSVC++ 6 with
> the latest patch-level) strings were refcounted but on the other team
> lead's computer (.net) strings were not refcounted. Do any of you know
> a webpage or site that consolidates information about the STL
> implementations on various platforms or does anyone have specific
> information about the state of the STL on Windows, WinCE, Symbian, Mac
> or Linux?
>

std::string was changed in VC.NET because of threading issues. However,
that's kind of OT.

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