So to david nugent do I speak these words:


Friday October 08 1993 18:29, david nugent wrote to Steven Pasztor:



 >> Which would be most likely to be usefull, adding TP string
 >> support to C++, and using it to drive the ASM routines, or
 >> converting the ASM routines to handle C++?
 dn> No idea - it depends on whetther TP strings are worth supporting for
 dn> whatever you're using it for.  But a simple "TP" string
translation to C++
 dn> won't quite work - and besides, you'll loose out on the better
 dn> optimisations possible in C++, such as length > 255, reference counting
 dn> and flexible/efficient use of memory.  Syntactically, they can be designed
 dn> to be used pretty much the same as TP strings, but a C++ implementation
 dn> will usually be the more efficient.

So I take the easyer option, and rewrite the ASM routines! :-)

The length rarely bothers me, besides, you still have to specify the length
don't you? And it's very rare that I use a full TP string.

As for the use of memory, how would they differ? Wouldn't they both be
treated as an array of characters?


nevets


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