[Development] RFC: Proposal for a semi-radical change in Qt APIs taking strings
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Oct 14 23:16:56 CEST 2015
On Wednesday 14 October 2015 22:56:15 André Pönitz wrote:
> > I think there’s actually quite a few of those. In addition, it might be
> > tricky to use QStringView in signals and slots.
>
> One could try to be clever and go through an intermediate QString
> object at least in queued connections. Or even always.
-2 on any signal-slot special-casing for some types.
It's possible that the string in question *is* retained and there's no need to
copy. We can't know that in QObject::activate, so we shouldn't try.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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