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Re:The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) by jevinskie on Friday April 11, 2014 @02:43PM (#7574650)
A length field really is insignificant. On a 64-bit machine, a 4GB max length field is half the size of the pointer to the string itself! C++ STL strings already use a length specifier and I don't think anyone is complaining about performance because of it.
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