Proposal to introduce a KDE::stringCache

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Thu Feb 26 19:26:47 CET 2004


On Thursday 26 February 2004 13:22, Maksim Orlovich wrote:
> 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...

  Of course..  just use a lookup table for that.  Am I misunderstanding this, 
or is it really the case that it stores the uid and gid for each file as a 
string?

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