[sbjs]

Hey man don't worry about that, that's just the way of life. People notice things when they do, that part's not up to us. I've seen articles here posted years after they were written.

Very nice and thoroughly documented code! Well done! What gave you the initial idea to write this maybe-fastest-ever string library? Did you just have an idea one day of how it could be done and you just went for it? Or did you have a performance issue and come up with this to speed something up at work, or what?

[johnboyer]

I just really needed a string library written in C, and it didn't seem as though there were many options. The first thing I found was the Simple Dynamic Strings library, but it wasn't maintained and depended on GCC extensions, so I decided to write my own. After getting a basic functional concatenation, I benchmarked it against std::string to see how slow it was, and to my great surprise, it was actually faster. From that point, I realized I can actually write some pretty fast code, and I decided to make the library centered around that.

[sbjs]

I'm surprised to hear it was faster, I just assumed C++ standard library is optimized for speed since I thought that's what C++ is known for compared to JavaScript.