I am trying to optimize the rendering code. Things could, indeed, be made
more efficient if one didn't care about multi-byte encodings. Of course,
we should care about them. ANyway, while optimizing, I had some
questions:
1. There is no guarantee that every bit of text in a record is followed
eventually by a null, right? (There is, e.g., no guarantee that there is
a function at the end of a record, or a terminating null?)
2. Can multi-byte encoded texts have nulls that do not signal the end of
the string, i.e., nulls in the middle of multi-byte characters? (I assume
there can't be nulls at the start of them--if there can, our code is in
trouble.)
3. At one point in the code I'd like to skip to the next function or to a
specified offset N in a string, whichever is closer. Any bright ideas on
how to do this quickly? Of course the easy way is to loop using
TxtGlueGetNextChar(). But TxtGlueGetNextChar(), I expect, slows things
down. If the answer to #2 is negative, then this is easy--I just scan
ahead character by character to a null.
I might just have to make some alternate code for 8-bit encodings.
Alex
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Philosophy Department || online papers and home page:
Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85
Washington, DC 20057 ||
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