[Development] Deprecating QString::{v,}sprintf()

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Tue Feb 21 17:46:17 CET 2012


On Tuesday February 21 2012, you wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM,  <jan-arve.saether at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Is there any reason why we cannot move QString::asprintf() to
> > QByteArray::asprintf() instead?
>
> If your data is already in a QString, you're going to pay a rather
> large penalty to copy it all to a byte array just to use that, and
> then convert it back.

That's exactly what QString::sprintf does right now - it only works on 8bit 
strings, even though it stores the result in a QString.

Thanks,
Marc

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