Re: The empty string and other empty strings

[Mike Gran]

> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>>  What do you think about that?  Do zero-length substrings need to
>>  still share stringbufs with their parent strings?
> 
> I think the answer is: no they don't, and avoiding that might be a
> worthwhile optimization, mainly to avoid needlessly holding a reference
> to a potentially large stringbuf.

That's a good point.
 
Thanks,
 
Mike