On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:05 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:43 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> > > + DOMString => "dom_string *",
> > Out of interest, should we be porting libdom to libwapcaplet to allow
> > for faster node name comparison etc when we start to need to apply
> > libcss to libdom? I believe hubbub will be migrating to libwapcaplet
> > too.
> I think so. However, I wonder if you have any thoughts about interning
> Text/CDATASection node contents? I'm not entirely convinced that it's
> worth it. There's an obvious win for everything else, though.
It's only worth interning those if it'll help later for the physical
layout, or to keep all the interfaces the same.
The former is unlikely, the latter isn't a bad plan.
Interning them only costs once anyway, so it's not exactly hard, and
then the layout engine could intern substrings of it for the box nodes
if it needed to, which would reduce memory repetition.
Ah yes. I'd not considered the implication of being able to intern
substrings :) I think, therefore, that s/dom_string/lwcstring/g on the
libdom source tree is the thing to do, then.
J.