On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Kem Tekinay wrote:
On 12/8/06 6:13 PM, Charles Yeomans at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay. Were you intending this to be a counterexample to my claim?
Well, I don’t think I would have phrased it that way, but I guess
so. :-)
What your example shows is that Join is probably not faster than
string concatenation for a small number of strings. I'm not too
surprised by this. Compare these two methods and see which is faster.
dim s as String
for i as Integer = 1 to 10000
s = s + "a"
next
dim buffer(-1) as String
for i as Integer = 1 to 10000
buffer.Append "a"
next
dim s as String = Join(buffer, "")
Can you recommend a better way? It's all in the spirit of becoming
better
coders, after all.
A better way for your original code? Probably not. While there may
or may not be minor optimizations, I didn't see anything that would
speed it up other than reading it all in and processing the resulting
array, as you did. If this were something I needed to do, I might
try reading in a BinaryStream and handling all of the parsing
myself. But, as I said, this is what Perl is for.
Charles Yeomans
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