[webkit-dev] Making empty vectors smaller; eliminate String::adopt(Vector)?

[Darin Adler]

For vectors with no inline capacity, we can store the capacity inside the Vector’s buffer. That way, the Vector itself will be one size_t smaller when empty. In fact, with a bit of performance risk, we can do the same thing with the vector’s size, making an empty Vector just a single pointer. But doing this also means that the allocated buffer won’t have the vector elements at the start of the memory block. The only thing I could find that this would interfere with would be the String::adopt(Vector) function. My question is whether with the latest wonderful StringBuilder technology we could eliminate String::adopt(Vector). Can we get rid of that entirely from WebKit?

-- Darin