WeakRefStrings
A string type for minimizing data-transfer costs in Julia
Installation
The package is registered in the General registry and so can be installed with Pkg.add
.
julia> using Pkg; Pkg.add("WeakRefStrings")
Project Status
The package is tested against Julia 0.6
and nightly on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Contributing and Questions
Contributions are very welcome, as are feature requests and suggestions. Please open an issue if you encounter any problems or would just like to ask a question.
Usage
Usage of WeakRefString
s is discouraged for general users. Currently, a WeakRefString
purposely does not implement many Base Julia String interface methods due to many recent changes to Julia's builtin String interface, as well as the complexity to do so correctly. As such, WeakRefString
s are used primarily in the data ecosystem as an IO optimization and nothing more. Upon indexing a WeakRefStringArray
, a proper Julia String
type is materialized for safe, correct string processing. In the future, it may be possible to implement safe operations on WeakRefString
itself, but for now, they must be converted to a String
for any real work.
Additional documentation is available at the REPL for ?WeakRefStringArray
and ?WeakRefString
.