Strawman; nul-terminated strings are horribly slow for nearly every application....

moonchild on June 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms disco...

Strawman; nul-terminated strings are horribly slow for nearly every application. Hence I assume (especially given that they are using c++) that they are using length-accompanied strings rather than nul-terminated ones.