Issue #19314 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). naruse (Yui NARUSE) wrote in #note-3:
But your proposal: Lazy substrings is not a solution because it also creates an object especially for small strings which is embedded in RVALUE.
Yes it creates a String instance reusing the same buffer. That shouldn't cost much compared to copying many bytes. It should be insignificant on a benchmark with a long string to copy/move, for a short string perf shouldn't matter much anyway (it won't the be bottleneck of the program). If it's still too much overhead, it sounds like allocations in CRuby need to be better optimized, or escape analysis should be implemented. Again, those 2 are more general and benefits are much wider than this one method change that would be used for very few Ruby programs and only handles one specific case. ---------------------------------------- Feature #19314: String#bytesplice should support partial copy https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19314#change-101078 * Author: shugo (Shugo Maeda) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- String#bytesplice should support partial copy without temporary String objects. For example, given `x = "0123456789"`, either of the following replaces the contents of `x` with `"0167856789"`: ```ruby x.bytesplice(2, 3, x, 6, 3) x.bytesplice(2..4, x, 6..8) ``` ## Considerations * What should be the return value? * The return value should be the whole source string for performance and consistency with `bytesplice(offset, len, s)`. * Can the source and destination ranges overlap? * Yes. * Can the source and destination lengths be different? * Yes. * Can range form and offset/length form be mixed in the source and destination? * No. * What should happen when any offset doesn't land on character boundary in text strings. * IndexError should be raised. * Can the length be omitted in the destination? * Maybe yes, but it may be confusing. ## Use cases * [Gapped buffer implementation for text editors](https://github.com/shugo/textbringer) * [NAT implementation](https://github.com/kazuho/rat) * https://twitter.com/kazuho/status/1611279616098070532 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/