From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA28247; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:05:48 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28268 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:05:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6CE5if04066 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:05:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g6CE5cSs027689; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:05:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp115.dyn1.pacific.net.au [61.8.1.115]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id AAA00765; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:05:36 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D2EE22F.2070902@ozemail.com.au> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:05:35 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Andrieu CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Array.resize ? References: <200207112228.SAA02692@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> <3D2ED196.2060104@ozemail.com.au> <15662.55367.137137.180117@akasha.ijm.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Olivier Andrieu wrote: > John Max Skaller [Friday 12 July 2002] : > > Similar for Strings .. though IMHO module String should be > > deprecated: we don't need Strings when we have Arrays. > >You mean throwing away, the compact, C-compatible representation of >strings > > and using instead some `char array' (that is, arrays of 32bits > That is an optimisation problem for the compiler. 32 bits is the right size for a Unicode character - but byte arrays are still useful. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners