OpenEuphoria

Re: Str-Kat

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at b?gpond.co?> May 30, 2008
• 676 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> Shawn Pringle wrote:
> > 
> > Kat,
> > 
> > A EUPHORIA string is a sequence that contains integer
> > values that each represent a character value.


> Really? 

Ok, its not quite accurate. It should read more like ...

"A EUPHORIA string is a sequence that ONLY contains POSTIVE integer
values that each represent a character value."

> Since when does EUPHORIA use only 8 bits for each CHAR
> in the SEQUENCE? 

Since when is the definition of "string" :: An array of 8-bit unsigned integers?

> Since when can you load a 500mbyte STRING into EUPHORIA and
> not have the OS kill the application with "too much memory used"
> error (windoze allows each app to have  only 2 gigabytes)?

It doesn't. I bet a Commodore 64 couldn't do that either.

Since when do you absolutely, positively, must have all those 500 mega BYTES in
RAM at the same time? Are you saying that your task can only be achieved if all
those bytes are in RAM simultaneously?

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Derek Parnell
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