Strings
Yes I'm going to wade into this again.
1st) memory conservation is good especially when there is a large amount of
waste.
2nd) speed decrease is not nice, but acceptable
because most importantly
***Type checking reduces error's***
It also reduce's the need for manual error detection which can get quite omplex
and slow
and consuming with euphoria. The alternative is to let the routine die from an
obscure error
and let the finger be pointed at the routine it dies in rather than the one who
started the
problem.
I will again say string's are good.
Consider the standard indexing on a sequence, it must require quite complex
operation's.
Where as the indexing on a string would require a simple bounds check, offset
calculation and a
peek.
As intel chips align to 4 bytes. Unless the string has a length which is a
multiple of 4 there
is a gap of up to 3 bytes to append into reducing the time for that.
There are many other benefits but I'm going to diner.
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Sincerely,
Mathew Hounsell
mat.hounsell at excite.com
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