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AK: Remove String-from-StringView optimization

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We had an unusual optimization in AK::StringView where constructing
a StringView from a String would cause it to remember the internal
StringImpl pointer of the String.

This was used to make constructing a String from a StringView fast
and copy-free.

I tried removing this optimization and indeed we started seeing a
ton of allocation traffic. However, all of it was due to a silly
pattern where functions would take a StringView and then go on
to create a String from it.

I've gone through most of the code and updated those functions to
simply take a String directly instead, which now makes this
optimization unnecessary, and indeed a source of bloat instead.

So, let's get rid of it and make StringView a little smaller. :^)
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Andreas Kling 2021-04-17 01:18:39 +02:00
parent 94b247c5a9
commit 873da38d0e
4 changed files with 5 additions and 17 deletions
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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
* Copyright (c) 2018-2020, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
* Copyright (c) 2018-2021, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@ -209,8 +209,6 @@ public:
return m_length < other.m_length;
}
const StringImpl* impl() const { return m_impl; }
[[nodiscard]] String to_string() const;
[[nodiscard]] bool is_whitespace() const { return StringUtils::is_whitespace(*this); }
@ -227,7 +225,6 @@ private:
[[nodiscard]] bool is_one_of() const { return false; }
friend class String;
const StringImpl* m_impl { nullptr };
const char* m_characters { nullptr };
size_t m_length { 0 };
};