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.
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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
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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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