Re: Different string format options, benefits?

pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
Fri, 18 Oct 1991 10:04:53 GMT

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From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
Keywords: code, optimize
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
References: 91-10-061
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 10:04:53 GMT

In article 91-10-061 coxs2@rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox) writes:
>I am curious about the benefits/costs related to the two general character
>string formats (two I'm familiar with at least). The "C" style
>null-terminated, and the (not so standard) Pascal length-string format (where
>the length of the string is embedded in the string, usually at the beginning.


The article by C. Bron and E. J. Dijkstra: "A Better Way to Combine
Efficient String Length Encoding and Zero-termination", Sigplan
Notices, June 1989, describes a method which combines these two
methods. The length of the string is stored at the end of the string
container rather than at the beginning.
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