This class is similar to BufferStream because it is possible to both
read and write to it. However, it differs in the following ways:
- DuplexMemoryStream keeps a history of 64KiB and discards the rest,
BufferStream always keeps everything around.
- DuplexMemoryStream tracks reading and writing seperately, the
following is valid:
DuplexMemoryStream stream;
stream << 42;
int value;
stream >> value;
For BufferStream it would read:
BufferStream stream;
stream << 42;
int value;
stream.seek(0);
stream >> value;
In the future I would like to replace all usages of BufferStream with
InputMemoryStream, OutputMemoryStream (doesn't exist yet) and
DuplexMemoryStream. For now I just add DuplexMemoryStream though.
FlyString is a flyweight string class that wraps a RefPtr<StringImpl>
known to be unique among the set of FlyStrings. The class is very
unoptimized at the moment.
When to use FlyString:
- When you want O(1) string comparison
- When you want to deduplicate a lot of identical strings
When not to use FlyString:
- For strings that don't need either of the above features
- For strings that are likely to be unique
You can now #include <AK/Forward.h> to get most of the AK types as
forward declarations.
Header dependency explosion is one of the main contributors to compile
times at the moment, so this is a step towards smaller include graphs.
