[Patch] Nathan's improvements to basic_string

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:01:05PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> 
> below you will find attached the long standing patch
> contributed by Nathan, rediffed against mainline, which
> finally I and Loren got around to test for performance
> (besides the obvious regression testing).

Wow.  That's far cooler than the stuff I've been playing with.  Yay!

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