stricks VS buffet

> I was thinking about Simple Dynamic Strings but I like this better.

Oh! here's my chance to plug https://github.com/alcover/stricks ! It follows the same principle as SDS (i.e user-facing type is char*) but is much faster (see bench) and frankly nicer to read through.

Not as feature complete, though.

Mine is also variable (see https://github.com/alcover/stricks/blob/main/src/stx.c). Maybe they switch more often that necessary ?

The threads were very interesting. I got back to work and it's time to talk speed ! https://github.com/alcover/stricks#speed

Made this C lib for exactly the reasons you mention. I love C but got mad at the constant bounds errors and copying.

https://github.com/alcover/buffet

Buffet

Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C\ (63 comments)

(following a discussion from https://github.com/alcover/buffet/commit/eab9648ff19483f57fd...)

> if nobody's looking, we are go

https://github.com/alcover/buffet/blob/dee3eb65f37ca07ea3d27...

And otherwise, when is it freed?

The refcount mechanism looks wrong to me: either the ownership of internal data is shared between instances (it seems it is not the case), either the owner is well defined and does not need a refcount.

It appears that the refcount is used to avoid freeing the owner data if Buffet views are still alive. But using the views after freeing the referenced data is incorrect usage anyway, so it looks like defensive programming, trading a use-after-free for a leak.