OpenEuphoria

Re: new allocate_string functions

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Sep 13, 2004
• 382 views

Bernard Ryan wrote:
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 

[snip]

> 
> Rob:
> 
>   Can't you do this ?
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
>      if mem then
>          poke(mem, s&0)
> --         poke(mem+length(s), 0)  -- Thanks to Aku
>      end if
> </eucode>
{{{


Yes, but its a lot slower. First the 's&0' must create a new sequence
built by appending 0 to s. Then we get to copy that temporary sequence
to RAM, then we get to delete the temporary sequence.


-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia