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String literal storage optimization #58

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ForNeVeR opened this issue Jan 11, 2022 · 1 comment
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String literal storage optimization #58

ForNeVeR opened this issue Jan 11, 2022 · 1 comment
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area:cil-interop Related to CIL (.NET) interop good-first-issue An issue considered simple enough for new contributors hacktoberfest kind:feature New feature or request status:help-wanted Open for contributors

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ForNeVeR commented Jan 11, 2022 •
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When storing two literals, "bar" and "foobar", the compiler may optimize them to save space in the binary: only store "foobar" and point "bar" pointer to the middle of the literal.

 f o o b a r \0
 ↑     ↑
 |    "bar" points here
"foobar" points here
@ForNeVeR ForNeVeR added the kind:feature New feature or request label Jan 11, 2022
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Thanks to @a1batross for this suggestion.

@ForNeVeR ForNeVeR added the area:cil-interop Related to CIL (.NET) interop label Jan 16, 2022
@ForNeVeR ForNeVeR added good-first-issue An issue considered simple enough for new contributors status:help-wanted Open for contributors labels Feb 6, 2022
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