home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ ftp.cs.arizona.edu / ftp.cs.arizona.edu.tar / ftp.cs.arizona.edu / icon / newsgrp / group93b.txt / 000119_icon-group-sender _Thu May 27 18:17:08 1993.msg < prev    next >
Internet Message Format  |  1993-06-16  |  790b
  1. Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU; Thu, 27 May 1993 18:07:47 MST
  2. Received: by owl.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 27 May 1993 18:07:49 MST
  3. Date: Thu, 27 May 93 18:17:08 EDT
  4. From: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu
  5. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  6. Message-Id: <668400@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu>
  7. Subject: String uniqueness
  8. Status: R
  9. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  10.  
  11. Does the Icon implementation store strings uniquely?  I'm interested
  12. in knowing because it clearly affects the speed of string comparison
  13. and therefore the strategy for storing "symbols".  If they are stored
  14. uniquely, I assume, string comparison is just comparison of a single
  15. pointer; if not, it requires scanning the strings character by character.
  16.  
  17. Paul Abrahams
  18. reply to: abrahams@acm.org
  19.