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CppCon 2016: Nicholas Ormrod “The strange details of std::string at Facebook"
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Nicholas Ormrod's CppCon 2016 talk on how Facebook optimizes std::string with its open-source replacement fbstring. It covers storage layout tradeoffs, small string optimization and memory allocation behavior.
HN returns to it as the go-to talk on string internals, small string packing and why small percentage optimizations matter at scale.
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