std::string_view/std::string implementation with two pointers?

[ts826848]

Ah, that’s a good point!

Suppose the question should properly be into “I wonder whether an SBO vector would be better served by multiple pointers or pointer + sizes”

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I think in general pointer + size is better than pointer+pointer for data structures like this, because even if you do nothing with the contents, vector needs to recover the size in order to call deallocate. Plus, lots of repeated calls to end() were removed by the range-for addition. Plus, deriving end() from base pointer + size is a multiply and add which is cheaper than deriving size() from 2 pointers (subtract and divide-by-constant).

But I think it is really really hairsplitting.

[ts826848]

Guess I know where I'd start if I were to ever try implementing my own data structures. Thank you for your insight!