[M3devel] EXT Re: AND (., 16_ff). Not serious - or so I hope!

[Coleburn, Randy]

I seem to recall that Rodney did some work a while back relating to TEXT.
Rodney, can you weigh in on some of this?
--Randy Coleburn

From: Dragiša Durić [mailto:dragisha at m3w.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:46 PM
To: Jay
Cc: m3devel
Subject: EXT Re: [M3devel] AND (., 16_ff). Not serious - or so I hope!

You had idea in other message. Store length!

Another idea - store partial list of indices to character locations. So whatever one does, that list can be used/expanded. Whatever storage issues this makes, they are probably minor as compared to 32bit WIDECHAR for all idea.

Mika had performance problems with cm3 TEXT. I hope he follows and cares to refresh us on those issues?!

On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Jay wrote:


I'm torn on that. We'd have to consider ramifications like Text.Length vs buffer size requirements/expectations.


Is TEXT & its use abstracted enough to have been widened? Should we put it back and introduce WIDETEXT? That is essentially what C and C++ do. They are inconvenient for existing code but simple predictable make sense. Contrast with weird hybrid systems like Perl & Python for which I just can't get through the documentation and understand and predict how they work..


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