On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:26 +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2007, 07:37 +1000 schrieb skaller:

> But we have to be fair. It is simply nonsense to call the whole O'Caml
> string manipulation slow. You have access to all operations you need to
> do it fast. You just have to know how to code it.

No you don't, that's the point. There is no fast way to append using
string. You can use Buffer, but then you can't do (for example)
search. You can convert back and forth, and then you
pay an extra conversion cost.

C++ strings provide all the operations of both String and Buffer
and do not pay this cost.


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