From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/23
Date: 1999-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7sds9k$ja7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3vh922o3u.fsf@vault80.infomatch.bc.ca
In article <m3vh922o3u.fsf@vault80.infomatch.bc.ca>,
Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> wrote:
> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> > Labels: constant array (Command) of Command_String_Ptr :=
> > (Cut => new String'("Cu&t"),
> > Copy => new String'("&Copy"),
> >
> > Paste => new String'("&Paste"),
> > ...);
>
> The problem with this approach is that the data is duplicated. It is
> both in the static data area of the program (i.e. the string
> constants), and in the heap.
Perhaps. But unless I'm operating in an extremely low memory
environment, why should I care? An if memory is that limited, I probably
will be using a language subset that doesn't allow dynamic allocation
anyway.
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1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ragged Array Proposal Ted Dennison
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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