[m-dev.] string streams

[Ralph Becket]

>From Michael Day on 16/11/2000 11:22:44
> 
> I've implemented some simple string streams - input, output and duplex -
> based on what Fergus and Ralph mentioned earlier. However it leaves me
> wondering whether it would be better to use array(char) rather than string
> for storage, to generalise it to in memory streams of any time. There
> could still be a function that went from a stream(char) to a string. Any
> thoughts? Also I wouldn't know what to call these new things, buffers?
> Pipes? Queues? Deques?

array(char) is very wasteful (only one out of every four bytes is used).
Destructively updatable strings might do the trick.

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Ralph Becket      |      MSR Cambridge      |      rbeck at microsoft.com 

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