"basic_string is a very baroque component. In spite of that, careful policy-based design can increase your productivity into the stratosphere. Using a handful of policy implementations, you can choose between straight, small-string optimized, and reference-counted basic_string implementation as easy as feeding arguments to a template class. Surgeon General's warning: You might allegedly have a lot of fun while doing all that," says this article by Andrei Alexandrescu:
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