[Development] RFC: Proposal for a semi-radical change in Qt APIs taking strings

[Marc Mutz]

On Friday 16 October 2015 13:28:57 Иван Комиссаров wrote:
> Back to the topic.
> Marc, what usecases of QStringView are not covered with QString { ushort*
> data; int size; QStringData *refcount; }
> Not sure i understand that "interface" terminology. Would it be possible to
> pass QStringView to other (non-qt) APIs?

See my mail to Martin today.

While not the first reason to create a QStringView, yes, a (ushort*, ushort*) 
can allow zero-copy string transfer between at least C, C++ and Java, possibly 
also JavaScript. So it may have a direct benefit for QML, though I don't know 
that code at all.

Thanks,
Marc

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