On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:19 AM, Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Theodore H. Smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Besides, while the raw speed of appending a string maybe the simplest
thing to understand and compare, my FastString class has more
advantages than simply being used as a buffer. It has a long history
of use, and from that history it has gained many tweaks and features
making it very handy and simple to use.
I concur. A couple of months ago, I wrote a FastString replacement in
pure RB (I called it SpeedString), that, in the end, was just as fast
as Theo's FastString.
Still, I ended up continuing to use FastString for exactly the reasons
Theo mentions.
I too am suspicious of the statement about Join, but perhaps I'm
overlooking something. Charles, could you share a simple code example?
Sure. At <http://www.declaresub.com/ElfDataJoinProject.zip> is a
project file that requires Rb2006 (and Theo's plugin), and the compiled
MacOS application. On my machine, an aging 12" 867 mhz Powerbook,
Join concatenates the elements of a 100000 element string array in 5-6
ticks; performing the same operation using a FastString object takes
9-10 ticks.
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Charles Yeomans
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