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Diffstat (limited to 'core/upb_string.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | core/upb_string.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core/upb_string.h b/core/upb_string.h index bd89f67..ee345e3 100644 --- a/core/upb_string.h +++ b/core/upb_string.h @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ * string). * - strings are not thread-safe by default, but can be made so by calling a * function. This is not the default because it causes extra CPU overhead. + * + * Reference-counted strings have recently fallen out of favor because of the + * performance impacts of doing thread-safe reference counting with atomic + * operations. We side-step this issue by not performing atomic operations + * unless the string has been marked thread-safe. */ #ifndef UPB_STRING_H @@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ extern "C" { #endif // All members of this struct are private, and may only be read/written through -// the associated functions. Also, strings may *only* be allocated on the heap. +// the associated functions. struct _upb_string { // The pointer to our currently active data. This may be memory we own // or a pointer into memory we don't own. |