Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:45 AM, <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
>> Yes, the documentation will also have to be amended, but apart
>> from that, would people see a big problem with the "8192" limit
>> which now is suddenly of greater importance
>> {{as I said all along; hence my question to Wacek (and the
>> R-develers) if anybody found that limit too low}}
>>
>
> I haven't been following all this but in working with strings for
> the gsubfn package my own usage of the package was primarily
> for small strings but then I discovered that others wanted to use
> it for much larger strings of 25,000 characters, say, and it was
> necessary to raise the limits (and there are also performance
> implications which could be addressed too). I don't know what
> the situation is particularly here but cases where
> very large strings can be used include linguistic analysis and
> computer generated R code.
>
in principle, instead of the quite arbitrary and not justified constant
size limit 8192 [1], one could use dynamic arrays. this would allow
strings of arbitrary length without adding much performance penalty for
strings shorter than 8193 bytes.
[1] src/include/Defn.h:60
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