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From: pfw@aber-cs.UUCP (Paul Warren)
Subject: Re: Variable Length Strings
Date: 6 Jun 89 13:19:43 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <990@aber-cs.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8906012020.AA03083@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu

In article <8906012020.AA03083@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>, GDAU100@BGUVM.BITNET ("Jonathan B. Owen") writes:
> In issue #143, Thomas Hoyt replied to my question about variable length
> strings.  He is right by commenting that if the type V_string is used
> without the default of zero, your string is not of a variable length...
> 

I used to use the V_STRING package quite a lot (using the Alsys compiler)
and discovered that it was none too fast.  I tried a Grady Booch
package for the same job and got a speed-up factor of 40.

I never tried these two components on VADS though.
-- 
Paul Warren,				tel +44 970 623111 x3068
Computer Science Department,		pfw%cs.aber.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net (ARPA)
University College of Wales,		pfw@uk.ac.aber.cs (JANET)
Aberystwyth, Dyfed, United Kingdom. SY23 3BZ.

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1989-06-02 13:26 Variable Length Strings "Jonathan B. Owen"
1989-06-06 13:19 ` Paul Warren [this message]
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2004-10-21 17:52 variable lenght strings fabio de francesco
2004-10-22  7:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 11:11   ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 15:43     ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 18:37       ` Björn Persson
2004-10-25  7:30         ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26  0:06           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-26  8:43             ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 13:15               ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 17:37                 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-26 18:07                   ` Hyman Rosen
2004-10-26 20:10                     ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 10:26                       ` variable length strings Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 10:39                         ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 11:47                         ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-28  7:18                           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 11:50                         ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found]                         ` <uwtxcla1n.fsf@obry.Organization: LJK Software <PTzuwe3GsIg6@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2004-10-27 12:12                           ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-10-27 12:58                             ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 13:04                           ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 14:54                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-27 16:38                               ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28  8:14                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28  8:49                                   ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28  9:06                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 16:07                                       ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 22:05                                         ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:41                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29  1:11                                             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29  7:42                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 10:31                         ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 11:18             ` variable lenght strings Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-26 12:48               ` variable length strings Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 16:11                 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-26 18:50                   ` Björn Persson
2004-10-26 19:46                     ` Larry Kilgallen
1989-06-04  7:03 Variable Length strings "Jonathan B. Owen"
1989-06-02 16:19 Variable Length Strings Thomas Hoyt
1989-05-30 15:39 Variable length strings Thomas Hoyt
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