Yes. Sorry. That was not 100% correct. Still, your words (my emphasis) >C++ strings are not "optimized so". C++ strings (generally) do SSO (up to 23 bytes depe

Yes. Sorry. That was not 100% correct. Still, your words (my emphasis) >C++ strings are not "optimized so". C++ strings (generally) do SSO (up to 23 bytes depending on implementation), these also do SSO but only 8 bytes (to a total of 12) That is what I meant. I would (like you did) call it SSO still.