OpenEuphoria

Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size

• Posted by Tom Eklöf <eu-list at GNWMAIL.COM> Aug 06, 1999
• 529 views

>   I can hardly wait until I can fill memory (and HD) with Arabian,
> Japanese,
> Scandinavian, and more!
>
>   By the way, did you say why I would want to do that?
>
>       Jack

And Scandinavian takes up so much memory too!
Let's see, a and o umlaut, plus the norwegian counterparts, and the swedish o.
That's a whopping 5 characters, plus Icelandic if you want it of course, which
adds about 5 or so more.

Oh my god, that's 10 characters. That'll fill up your RAM or HD.

And I admit that Japanese, Chinese and Arabic are a different case altogether,
but they won't fill up your memory either. Arabic is about 200kb depending on the
dialect, and Japanese and Chinese are ~1mb. If you don't intend to read any of
these languages you don't need to, of course. But there are the people who happen
to need dots above their letters, and some who need the radical for huo4 and so
forth.

If you need it, you use it. Simple.

Sorry about the sarcasm, just happen to be in a very irate mood for a change.


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