Some senseless babbling from Geert Bosch to Mike Ruskai
on 12 Jan 95  14:07:00 about UU algorithm...

 GB> Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to Geert Bosch:
 
 MR> BTW, SysFileDelete would be a standard REXX counterpart to
 MR> ERASE. 
 GB> SysFileDelete is an external function from RexxUtil, which is
 GB> non-standard. Of course it's standard for OS/2, but so is 'ERASE' and
 GB> now I don't require the RexxUtil library to be present and/or loaded.
 GB> Replacing 'ERASE' with 'RM' on Unix systems will be easier than
 GB> figuring out what those RxFuncAdd and SysFileDelete functions do. 
 
Loading the RexxUtil functions takes a bit of memory and time, but you'll 
find that doing that and using SysFileDelete is much faster than starting 
up the command processor and using ERASE or DEL.  Believe me, calling upon 
the command processor tends to drag things down quite a bit.

 MR> And FYI, my goal is not to make a faster decoder, but a
 MR> smarter one that  can handle more situations.

 GB> Yes, that would be nice! Could you send me a copy when you're ready? 

If I ever get ready, sure.  I'm a bit short on time these days, so 
basically I'm waiting for the mood to strike :)

 GB> If you want to keep it fast, remember that standard Rexx functions are
 GB> orders of magnitude faster than those written in Rexx. So, using some
 GB> ugly, inefficient representation with efficient Rexx functions will
 GB> nearly allways be faster than writing an 'elegant' Rexx counterpart.

Well, I was actually planning on getting VX-REXX to produce a compiled 
copy, eventually.  

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