On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Nicholas Clark <nick(_at_)ccl4(_dot_)org> writes:
My only thought is should the API be full SVs, or char pointer plus
utf8/not flag? (possibly as 1 bit in a flags word)
My gut reaction is that the char * + flag would be easier to shoe-horn
into existing code base.
I don't know. The main advantage of not passing the SV* is that this
doesn't leave any gnawing doubts if you still have to worry about
calling mg_get() or not. :)
I noticed that many functions need to call strlen() on the char*
argument, which seems wasteful since we already know the length
in the SV. But I know that it doesn't really matter.
Cheers,
-Jan
