In a message dated 5/17/2005 7:47:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> es, Will. There are two variables. The descriptor definition found in
> $UVHOME/gcidir/include/DATUM.h states:
>
> struct Dstring
> { /* This are my comments. GI */
> STRING str; /* This is the entire dynamic array. */
> int lastfield; /* This is the last field accessed. */
> uchar *lastfptr; /* This is a pointer into str.text */
Thanks Gyle for that information.
So it seems like then it might be just as fast to also step *backward*
through an array ? I suppose that would depend on whether there is also an
opcode
for "scan backward to delimited" like there is for "scan forward to delimiter".
And then I would wonder if the code is optimized to actually try to determine
whether it would be faster to scan backward from present, or forward from
cell 1 ...
And then by that time, system programmers would be saying "Why can't they
just all use dimensioned arrays dammit" :) I suppose.
Will
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