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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
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Subject: Re: Strings Fixed, Bounded, and Counted. Performance Inquiry.
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Stephen Leake  wrote:
> Depends on what you are doing. Copying the strings character by
> character is the same speed for either construct. Block copy is faster
> with a count on most machines. But most algorithms for processing
> strings operate character by character, so it doesn't really matter.

I don't buy that. There is a lot of character by character processing
because there is no access to the length of the string.

BTW. Counted strings was on the Want List for Ada95.

greetings,