[Scummvm-devel] Make class String case insensitive by default?
James 'Ender' Brown
ender at scummvm.org
Sun Jul 23 03:07:54 CEST 2006
I like the idea also.
A single bool, and one extra branch (assuming the default case to be an
insensitive comparison, avoiding a jump) really shouldn't add an
excessive overhead.
Cheers,
Ender
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 23:38 +0200, Johannes Schickel wrote:
> > Adding a data field to all strings for this purpose alone seems like a
> > pointless waste of memory. Better to add a second comparison method
> > if we need both kinds.
>
> I thought of adding one bool which is used for the mode to use, this
> would of course need branching for every comparison function, but it
> shouldn't be that slow nor a big waste of memory.
>
> // Johannes
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