> So is Len faster on *nix ??? :-) I wonder if we'll have to rewrite the
Good question. :)
There are traditionally two ways of handling strings. C, etc uses NULL
terminated strings. Basic uses a pre-pended count integer. For the most part
null-terminated strings are much, much easier and faster to manipulate.
There are few cases, like with len functions and concats where basic strings
win out though.
Also, a lot of the microsofties used VB to write parts of the microsoft
code. So it infected COM, etc.
No idea how alliare implemented things on *nix though.
> rules as the new Java architecture is rolled out ...
Well, java strings are higher level objects... private arrays...
functionality it's about the same in that it should be internally keeping
what's essentially a length variable for the string. So, no real change.
That's a guess.
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