[M3devel] Simple change to WIDECHAR type

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
more important than a maximum length char type we need a minimum optimal char table size (and thus in word size so we can optimize). 
Use WIDECHAR and move it towards moduli arithmetic of CHAR {0..255}, so you can select at RT a common base to represent your character system I/O 
This happens in micro digital signal processor if you care output of such systems in practice. Also a terminal of characters is important to note for instance as a way of evaluating the speed of signal processor design. DEC had lot of devices like that so for instance to have a common interface to those systems is useful.
Many mainframes are still handled mostly by use of that device so, I guess is important for such system to support most types of encodings:
http://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/chapter8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-5

P Zollo write an emulator for that device, so maybe we can test speed of character streaming with that.

Thanks in advance

--- El vie, 29/6/12, Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org> escribió:

De: Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>
Asunto: [M3devel] Simple change to WIDECHAR type
Para: "m3devel" <m3devel at elegosoft.com>
Fecha: viernes, 29 de junio, 2012 03:35

m3front/src/builtinTypes/WCharr.m3, line:

    T := EnumType.New (16_10000, elts);

to

    T := EnumType.New (16_100000, elts);

Will this break things? Any other assumptions anywhere?

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