Re: Where is stringbuilder?

"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For L9 := 1 To L Do
BigStr[ L9 + Start ] := SmallStr[ L9 ] ;

That loop could be replaced by a Move.


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Personally I don't think that this is worth worrying about unless
one is doing a heck of a lot of concatenations on the same String

ISTR postings here from people who were adding a single character to
a string a mere ten thousand times or so, and wondering why it was
so slow.

At the risk of starting another code contest, there are _wonderful_
opportunities for premature optimisation in a function that returns
a string containing N instances of character C. And for sufficiently
large N, not even that premature.

'Result:=''; for i:=1 to N do Result:=Result+C;' is _definitely_ the
wrong answer.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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