From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question on bounded / unbounded strings
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:18:10 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-09-22T06:18:10-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <177d0054-2925-42d5-afba-f013dc7db4e2@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ns09p7$bp2$1@gioia.aioe.org>
> It is very difficult to find cases where
>
> 1. There is a hard upper bound, so hard that it would be feasible to
> mold it into the type.
It is not very difficult to realize that MD5, SHA1, etc. signatures are bounded strings.
In many domains it will be also easy to find that many identifiers and reference numbers are bounded, too.
Social security numbers tend to be bounded as well.
ZIP codes in any given country?
I don't know about you, but I seem to be surrounded by bounded strings.
Splitting strings is inefficient for you? It is very efficient for me to split the string and pass its individual parts to separate tasks for parallel processing. If you are doing the string splitting by traversing the string and storing the tokens aside, it is still splitting, even if you do not call it splitting.
Unbounded_String? Can be very useful as a sink for generated data in whatever format. I do not know up-front how big my XML will be before I store it in the database and I'm OK with the simplified view that the bound is my machine memory size.
Dmitry, you can have strong opinions on various subjects, but it is too easy to disagree with these ones.
--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 8:46 Question on bounded / unbounded strings Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-13 9:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 2:10 ` John Smith
2016-09-22 7:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 9:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-09-22 9:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 10:58 ` G.B.
2016-09-22 12:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 14:14 ` G.B.
2016-09-22 17:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 11:08 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-09-22 12:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 13:18 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2016-09-22 13:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-22 14:51 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-22 17:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-23 5:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-23 6:36 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-23 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-28 20:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-09-23 23:58 ` John Smith
2016-09-24 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-24 16:25 ` John Smith
2016-09-24 17:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-24 18:33 ` John Smith
2016-09-24 18:37 ` John Smith
2016-09-24 18:59 ` John Smith
2016-09-25 8:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-25 23:35 ` brbarkstrom
2016-09-26 7:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-26 12:39 ` brbarkstrom
2016-09-28 21:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-09-30 7:59 ` Björn Lundin
2016-09-13 9:35 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-09-13 10:41 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-13 17:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-13 17:59 ` Björn Lundin
2016-09-14 11:23 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-14 12:26 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-14 12:28 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-14 12:57 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-14 19:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-17 16:35 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-09-16 14:43 ` Olivier Henley
2016-09-17 16:35 ` Arie van Wingerden
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox