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2007 Apr 05
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sizeof(std::string)
Currently we carefully try to pass std::string by const reference everywhere, which is a good idea if one assumes it's an object of non-trivial size. Bjarne Stroustrup's guideline is "more than a couple of words): http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#call-by-reference I've noticed that under GCC at least (I tried 2.95, 3.3, and 4.1) std::string just holds a pointer to