20 May
2005
20 May
'05
1:57 a.m.
"Dave Harris" <brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote in message news:memo.187862@cix.compulink.co.uk... | In-Reply-To: <d6dhiu$hai$1@sea.gmane.org> | technews@kangaroologic.com (Jonathan Turkanis) wrote (abridged): | > > Are we going to generalise it to allow any (compile-time constant) | > > terminator? | > | > Why does the terminator have to be a compile-time constant? | | I was hesitant about suggesting a generalisation which added run-time | overhead over only supporting '\0'. can you back that up with performance measurements? (I would expect good compilers to completely remove the overhead; C++0x compiles are likely to guarantee this) -Thorsten