C++11 immutable string
I'm looking for feedback on this approach to an immutable string (istring). The idea is to provide a super fast immutable string that can be efficiently passed to lambdas as well as be 100% thread safe. Another bonus is faster hashing. If a string literal is given to istring, then the hash is computed at compile time! Other strings will have their hashes cached for later use. The istring is designed more or less after the python string in this regard. It should also consume less memory than std::string and perform faster in all other areas.
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I’ve been working on a compression algorithm for fast random access to individual strings in large collections. The problem came up when working with large in-memory database columns (emails, URLs, product titles, etc.), where low-latency point queries are essential. With short strings, LZ77-based compressors don’t perform well. Block compression helps, but block size forces a trade-off between ratio and access speed. Some existing options: - BPE: good ratios, but slow and memory-heavy - FSST (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489047): very fast, but…
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