From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Text_IO for other standard types
Date: 1998/01/14
Date: 1998-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34BD2DCF.2A29@online.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.884797067@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> It would make a nice student project to redesign the interface to remove
> the page/line nonsense, then recode the body (it is more than jsut
> removing code, you can in some cases do things multiple characters at
> a time which are now done one character at a time because of the page/line
> stuff, you can also remove a lot of junk used to support strange cases.
I second this. It would be a welcome addition.
The page/line stuff is not exactly nonsense, but a very strange priority
of allocating resources. It is almost exclusively useful for generating
reports. It's about as useful as the bit_order attribute - if my
interpretation of 13.5.3 matches reality.
> Then the project would measure the speed gain. I share Dale's suspicion
> that it would be substantial.
Isn't it usually the I/O time that is dominant in situations like this?
BTW. I have yet to inspect the actual code.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-09 0:00 Text_IO for other standard types Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen [this message]
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Speeding up Text_IO Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1998-01-12 0:00 Text_IO for other standard types Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-15 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-19 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-20 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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