Improve performance by handing out proxy to internal string

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk@12418 72102866-910b-0410-8b05-ffd578937521

ChangeLog

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 	* Source/NSWindow.m: ([-sendEvent:]) handle mouse down in window if
 	no view accepts it.  ([-mouseDown:]) implement to quietly ignore
 	event.
+	* Source/GSTextStorage.h: additional ivar
+	* Source/GSTextStorage.m: hand out a proxy to our internal storage,
+	to avoid either copying it (inefficient) or exposing the mutable
+	string (unsafe).
 
 Wed Feb  6 02:30:09 2002  Nicola Pero  <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>
 

Source/GSTextStorage.h

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 {
   NSMutableString       *_textChars;
   NSMutableArray        *_infoArray;
+  NSString		*_textProxy;
 }
 @end
 

Source/GSTextStorage.m

@@ -504,7 +504,11 @@ _attributesAtIndexEffectiveRange(
 
 - (NSString*) string
 {
-  return AUTORELEASE([_textChars copyWithZone: NSDefaultMallocZone()]);
+  if (_textProxy == nil)
+    {
+      _textProxy = RETAIN([_textChars immutableProxy]);
+    }
+  return _textProxy;
 }
 
 - (NSDictionary*) attributesAtIndex: (unsigned)index
@@ -777,6 +781,7 @@ changeInLength: [aString length] - range.length];
 
 - (void) dealloc
 {
+  TEST_RELEASE(_textProxy);
   RELEASE(_textChars);
   RELEASE(_infoArray);
   [super dealloc];