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// -*- C++ -*-
// Copyright (C) 2010-2015, Gabriel Dos Reis.
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//
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#ifndef OPENAXIOM_STRING_POOL_INCLUDED
#define OPENAXIOM_STRING_POOL_INCLUDED

#include <open-axiom/hash-table>

// --% Author: Gabriel Dos Reis.
// --% Description:
// --%   Basic persistent string facility.
// --%   A stringpool for allocating long-living string objects.

namespace OpenAxiom {
   struct StringPool;

   // ----------------
   // -- StringItem --
   // ----------------
   // String data allocated from a stringpool.
   struct StringItem {
      const Byte* begin() const { return text; }
      const Byte* end() const { return text + length; }
      size_t size() const { return length; }
      bool equal(const Byte*, size_t) const;
   protected:
      const Byte* text;         // pointer to the byte sequence
      size_t length;            // number of bytes in this string
      friend StringPool;
      StringItem() : text(), length() { }
   };

   // ----------------
   // -- StringPool --
   // ----------------
   // A string-pool object is a repository of long-living string objects.
   // It contains no duplicates, therefore allows  fast equality 
   // comparison of string objects.
   struct StringPool : private BasicHashTable<StringItem> {
      using BasicHashTable<StringItem>::EntryType;

      StringPool();
      // Intern a NUL-terminated sequence of characters.
      EntryType* intern(const char*);

      // Intern a sequence of characters given by its start and length.
      EntryType* intern(const Byte*, size_t);
   private:
      Memory::Arena<Byte> strings; // character blub
      // Allocate a string from the internal arena.
      const Byte* make_copy(const Byte*, size_t);
   };

   using InternedString = const StringPool::EntryType*;
}

#endif  // OPENAXIOM_STRING_POOL_INCLUDED