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Unmutable, string reference with "small object optimization".
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/** | |
* @brief Super simple, unmutable, string_view with | |
* small string optimization. | |
* If the string is 15 bytes or less, it is copied, otherwise, | |
* StringRef stores a not-owning reference. | |
*/ | |
class StringRef | |
{ | |
private: | |
static const uint64_t TYPE_BIT = uint64_t(1) << (sizeof(size_t)*8 -1 ); | |
struct noSSO | |
{ | |
const char* data; | |
size_t size; | |
}; | |
static const uint8_t SSO_SIZE = sizeof(noSSO) - 1; | |
struct SSO | |
{ | |
char data[sizeof(noSSO)]; | |
}; | |
union { | |
noSSO no_sso; | |
SSO sso; | |
} _storage; | |
public: | |
bool isSSO() const | |
{ | |
return !(_storage.no_sso.size & TYPE_BIT); | |
} | |
StringRef() | |
: StringRef( nullptr, 0 ) | |
{} | |
StringRef(const std::string& str) | |
: StringRef( str.data(), str.size() ) | |
{} | |
StringRef(const char* str) | |
: StringRef( str, strlen(str) ) | |
{} | |
explicit StringRef(const char* data_ptr, size_t length) | |
{ | |
_storage.no_sso.data = nullptr; | |
_storage.no_sso.size = 0; | |
if( length <= SSO_SIZE ) | |
{ | |
memcpy( _storage.sso.data, data_ptr, length ); | |
_storage.sso.data[SSO_SIZE] = SSO_SIZE - length; | |
} | |
else{ | |
_storage.no_sso.data = data_ptr; | |
_storage.no_sso.size = length; | |
_storage.no_sso.size |= TYPE_BIT; | |
} | |
} | |
const char* data() const | |
{ | |
return isSSO() ? _storage.sso.data : | |
_storage.no_sso.data; | |
} | |
size_t size() const | |
{ | |
return isSSO() ? (SSO_SIZE - _storage.sso.data[SSO_SIZE]) : | |
_storage.no_sso.size & ~TYPE_BIT; | |
} | |
}; |
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