[webkit-dev] Changing the implementation of KURL

[Benjamin Poulain]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Brett Wilson <brettw at chromium.org> wrote:
> So to clarify, I think we need to keep the current architecture.
> Obviously WebKit needs a URL class that uses its String class, so
> WTFURL would probably be a wrapper around some core library for WebKit
> to use. Chromium would rewrite our GURL class to use the same core
> library and keep std::strings (we don't want all our browser-level
> code to have to convert std::string -> WTF::String just like today we
> don't want to do the inverse in WebKit).

I don't really get this point. With WTF linked statically, no matter
how "largish" WTF, it will not cost much to use.

You say you don't want to convert std::string->WTF::String and
WTF::String at the browser level, but aren't you doing that a lot more
with the current code?

Parsing valid URL can probably be done without WTF.
URL canonicalization is frequent in WebKit and I would think using
String directly is a good idea. Same for modifying a URL.

Chromium is the only ports that use the same URL Class in the whole
stack. And it seems you do not want any dependencies on WTF. Maybe an
alternative is to change this and convert KURL->GoogleURL on platform
boundaries like the other ports?

Benjamin