[Development] QStringRef conversion functions

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 11 de junho de 2012 14.54.44, Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Keith Gardner
> 
> <kgardner at zebraimaging.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there would be a possibility of getting some of the
> > conversion functions that are in QString implemented in QStringRef (toInt,
> > toFloat, etc...).  The reasoning behind this is that I am using the
> > QXMLStreamReader to parse an XML file with over 88,704 floating point
> > values.  I am trying to improve the speed at which the file is parsed and
> > I
> > believe one of the bottlenecks is taking an attribute of QStringRef and
> > copying its data into a QString in order to convert to a float.  I would
> > prefer that the copy never happen but that would require some more
> > intelligence be added into the QStringRef class.
> 
> I am tempted to say it's 5.1 material but it would be nice to see how
> much gains you are getting out of these new apis and how intrusive the
> new code is. Can you push your change to gerrit ?

We might be able to remove QStringRef before Qt 5.0 and replace it with plain 
QString.
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