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- From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Jim Cottrell)
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 16:57:43 EDT
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- > Having done a lot of case insensitive work, i've always felt that the
- > UNIX case sensitivity was from laziness. If i were to be charitable,
- > i might go so far as to call it a shortcut.
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- I prefer to call it optimization. Case insensitivity must be enforced.
- By my count, that's at least two instructions per character, plus loop
- control (unless you have something like VAX's `move translated characters').
- That ought to negate any speedup from hashing or name translation caching.
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- What is lazy is people refusing to learn the difference.
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- [ See previous comments about argument by character assassination. -mod ]
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- (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
- YOW!! I'm in a very clever and adorable INSANE ASYLUM!!
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 69
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