At 05:00 PM 6/10/02 -0400, Jonathan Segal wrote:
>Actually, I think she was suggesting using pack....
>Speed-wise I would expect this to be similar to Neil's technique, but this
>would be cleaner to read since the "pack" is doing all the work, and you
>don't need to worry as much about memory management issues. You just have
>to learn "pack" and understand casting of pointers in C.
Exactly. ;-) Your for{} in C is basically doing what -pack- would be
doing for you. No idea what would be faster in general. If you don't like
the magic that -pack- does, your code is probably easier to understand and
maintain.
Liz
