Re: A-Desc

From: John Evans (evansj@HI-LINE.NET)
Date: 01/29/98


On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, George wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, John Evans wrote:
>
> >I've been thinking about doing this, but am kind of concerned about
> >memory usage. After all... I'd be adding two more strings onto each obj.,
> >and not all objs would even use those.
>
> ...and if that object doesn't use a special string, all you waste is
> sizeof(char *) in memory and a ~\n on disk.
>

Ah! Interesting... I admit that the weakest part of my programming
prowess is string manipulation and memory management. *sigh* Need to find
a tutorial labelled "How to program with strings and not waste memory
doing it." :)

I just might work up a patch vs. bpl12 w/Oasis 1.6a that will add in that
extra functionality. That will give me something to do to put off
learning PERL for a form here at work. *grin* (Isn't procrastination great?)

John Evans <evansj@hi-line.net>  --  http://www.hi-line.net/~evansj/

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Arthur C. Clarke


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