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From: pfw@aber-cs.UUCP (Paul Warren)
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Subject: Re: Variable Length Strings
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Date: 6 Jun 89 13:19:43 GMT
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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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