... in preparation for replacing the QString keys in the public API
with QAnyStringView ones.
This removes the "important optimization" that avoids a detach in the
common case where the input is the same as the output of
normalization. But that optimization is beside the point, because it
trades a memory allocation avoided in the library for O(N) allocations
inserted into user code for each call to QSettings::value(), the vast
majority of which are calls with string literals.
With the public interface ported to QAnyStringView in the follow-up
patch, we can then internally optimize memory allocations _in a central
place_ (e.g. by returning std::u16string or QVarLengthArray<QChar> from
normalizeKey() instead of QString). But first we need to get rid of all
the unwarranted allocations in user code.
Change-Id: I45fc83d972c552a220c9c29508001d3f172e1162
Reviewed-by: Qt CI Bot <qt_ci_bot@qt-project.org>
Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Sona Kurazyan <sona.kurazyan@qt.io>
6ec1dc904d