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|    highcrew to David Brown    |
|    Re: UB-free slice    |
|    06 Jan 26 11:25:20    |
      From: high.crew3868@fastmail.com              On 1/6/26 9:15 AM, David Brown wrote:       > Use memmove. Your assumption about the performance penalty is       > unwarranted - it should be negligible on any scale of things. And even       > if the performance penalty was big, "correct" is better than "fast"       > every time.              Thanks, that's how I corrected the code.              > You have a very strange definition for your "Buffer" type. A "Buffer"       > type that does not keep track of the start of the buffer, but only the       > end point and the space remaining in the memory allocation, is not much       > use as a buffer. It might be useful as a "Buffer_End_Point" type, but       > not "Buffer".              It is used a bit like a cursor.       But you are right: it is not properly a buffer, although it can be       used to reference a buffer.       Perhaps it should be renamed as `struct Slice`.              --       High Crew              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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