Re: is ada dead?

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <m34rso3ygq.fsf@yahoo.com>, stephen_bevan@yahoo.com (Stephen J. Bevan) writes:
> James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>> In other words, if
>> you want to loop through all the characters in an existing 1024
>> character String, replacing each one, you will require the creation
>> and garbage collection of 1024 1024 character strings. Since Java
>> characters are all 16 bits, this means that you need to chew up
>> over 2 Megabytes of data to edit a 1024 character String.
> 
> You could do it like that.  However, it would be more efficient to
> turn your String into a StringBuffer, which supports in-place updates.
> Make all the changes you want to the StringBuffer and then turn it
> back into a String.  This way you'd only chew up approximately 3K.

Programmers should not have to know the efficiency characteristics
of mechanisms underlying an implementation to that level of detail.