Re: Ada Structure Library 1.4 release

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Thanks for the input.  That's kind of what I thought, too, but Ada plays 
in a lot of different places, and I wanted some input.

-Corey

Nick Roberts wrote:

> "Corey Minyard" <minyard@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:3BF1887F.5020307@acm.org...
> 
>>..
>>Also, it generates a timezone file from the zone info files supplied
>>with glibc.  The trouble is that the full generated file is huge (8800
>>lines, about 1/2 meg).  It contains all the timezones you could possibly
>>imagine back to when timezones started.  There is a much smaller
>>simplified version that only contains the current timezone data (no
>>historical information).  I'm curious what people think I should do with
>>the huge file.  I could put the information in files and read it in on
>>demand, but then the system has to have files go along with it.  I could
>>break it up to continent chunks, but that doesn't seem to gain much and
>>complicates things.  Just curious if anyone has any ideas.
>>
> 
> On a typical modern workstation (or PC), a 0.5 MB file is tiddly. Absolutely
> no problem. Is it in binary format? If not, perhaps it could be made more
> compact anyway.
> 
> On any machine for which such a file is too big, it's very unlikely that
> full historical timezone computations would be required. More likely, only a
> very simple time model would be required.
> 
> Problem solved!
> 
> --
> Best wishes,
> Nick Roberts
> 
> 
> PS: The concept of a 'continent chunk' would give any gastro-urinary tract
> specialist a nightmare, I suspect! ;-)