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		z92 on March 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go Not without wasting a lot of space depending on the difference between average size of string vs maximum size of string.

logicchains on March 8, 2015 | [–]

We generally know the maximum string sizes for each property, and they're pretty small, so this wouldn't have been a problem.

a8da6b0c91d on March 7, 2015 | [–]

You can use a string class like the one in Folly that decays from a fixed array to heap allocated space if the string gets too long.

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