Proposal to introduce a KDE::stringCache

[Maksim Orlovich]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, George Staikos wrote:

> On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:58, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > >
> > >       atom.m_str = KDE::stringCache(source_latin, length)
> >
> > Sounds interesting. How much would it help ?  But wouldn't this have to be
> > done inside QString ? Ok, we could also find some places where it can help
> > a lot and use it there explicitely as you suggest.
> > E.g. all the QStrings containing the owner, group and file type of a file
> > item in konqy ?
>
>   Why can't the uid and gid be stored instead?  That would surely be more
> efficient.

They would need to be converted to strings for display...