[libcxx-commits] [PATCH] D112361: [libc++][format] Buffer changes proof-of-concept

[Arthur O'Dwyer via Phabricator via libcxx-commits]

Quuxplusone added inline comments.


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Comment at: libcxx/include/__format/buffer.h:79-85
+  _LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI void put(_CharT __c) {
+    *__buffer_it_++ = __c;
+    // Profiling showed flushing after adding is more efficient than flushing
+    // when entering the function.
+    if (__buffer_it_ == __buffer_.end())
+      flush();
+  }
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>>! @vitaut wrote on D110495:
> I think D112361 is a step in the right direction. You can do even better and make it represent a contiguous (not necessarily fixed-size) buffer with a single type-erased reallocation/flush function. Then it can be used to write to contiguous containers like vector and string which is a common case directly avoiding copies. This is basically what {fmt} does.

Charlie Barto also showed MSVC STL doing that approach, in his CppCon talk on Thursday. https://cppcon.digital-medium.co.uk/thursday-recordings/
IIRC, basically they have `_Size, _Capacity, virtual void _Grow()`; and whenever `_Size == _Capacity` they call `_Grow`. I guess I remain fuzzy on the details of what `_Grow` would actually do for a `std::string` (does it resize? does it merely reserve?).


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