On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:21:50AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Besides, it gives the computer something to do when it doesn't have anything > else to do, > which is most of the time.
You didn't work with mainframes or embedded system it seems XD > Also, remember that you gain in most circumstances since you probably started > with > serialized bytes. Storage (.e.g. disk or network) is mostly a matter of > working with > bytes. So this gain tends to balance out the cost you mention with respect > to indexing. > We are probably burning more cycles converting to 16 or 32 bit characters in > KiCad than > the cost of indexing for insertion would cost. I specified 'if you aren't only copying them from here to there'. In UTF8 moving forward or backward is O(n) complexity instead of O(1) because character length is variabile. More like a list than an array. > a) there is no longer a reason for wxWidgets project to have their own string > class. It > leads to lack of portability, creates an attachment to wx, and makes folks > learn another > way of doing something for which there is now a standard in C++. Absolutely concord. > > b) Microsoft is not a good foundation on which to base any software > investment, since they Look at MFC then ATL now .NET :P:P > > I see 6GB ram *laptops* around. > > Go buy some, quit whining about opengl. :) We buy laptops second hand because with the ruggeds a 'new' is about 4000 eur :D So now I'm using an original core duo :P:P And Intel GPU is less than stellar with opengl > No, that "convenience" is established by the API. My convenience is not the > computer's > convenience. Talking in terms of iterator it's more or like the difference between a forward iterator and a random iterator. Said that, people is still doing sorts on mag tape (not really, an equivalent spool), so it's more the algorithms that matter. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
