Re: Kat's 8bit sequences
Shawn Pringle wrote:
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> ** The Idea **
>
> Some sequences store their values using 64-bits each value others 32 bits.
> Yet
> it is transparent to the user. See the performance note under strings. What
> was done for 32 bit values could also be done for 8 bit byte values. Call
> them
> Kat sequences. The EUPHORIA syntax wouldn't change, yet under the hood the
> amount of memory used for some sequences is 1 byte per value plus sequence
> overhead.
>
>
> ** The Need? **
>
> When EUPHORIA was released 15 years ago when computers were lucky to have a
> 500 MB HARD DRIVE this wasn't a problem. It would seem less important these
> days with so much RAM. Yet, Robert Craig didn't think it was an issue then.
> Is
> it an issue today?
I learned a long time ago two things about programming:
1. I could manipulate many megs of data using only a few hundred bytes of
memory.
2. I would be an idiot to try to do it that way.
Why take weeks to create a slow, complex, probably bug-ridden program when
you can throw cheap hardware at the problem and get the results much quicker,
with less chance for errors, using a simple script?
So is there a need? Not for most of us, in fact probably only one here.
The others who do this kind of thing probably investigated Eu and decided
it was handicapped compared to other languages. Therefore, you won't see
them here. That doesn't mean they don't exist.
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