Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Cost of Unicode strings for ASCII data

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Adams wrote:
> In a test Eiffel program, I read the entire file into a STRING_8, and I then 
> created a new string from that data. The elapsed time of the program depends 
> upon the dynamic type of the resulting string. Here are my timings:
> 
> STRING_8: 7 seconds
> STRING_32: 13 seconds
> UC_UTF8_STRING: 14 seconds.

Which compiler did you use?
Out of curiosity, did you try with gec?

-- 
Eric Bezault
mailto:er...@go...
http://www.gobosoft.com