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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? |
| Date | 2018-02-06 14:42 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87po5ikwmg.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes: > On 2/6/18 6:17 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes: >> <snip> >>> The alternative would be for it not to be an integer type at all - and >>> require explicit functions for conversion back and forth with integers. >>> That is what other languages do. >>> >>> In my "perfect language", there would be a "character" type that holds a >>> single 8-bit value covering ASCII and UTF-8 code points. >> >> This looks a but messed up. The bytes that make up a multi-byte >> encoding like UTF-8 have no meaning at all except as numbers (well, bit >> patters as much numbers but it the same thing for most languages). Of >> all the operations you decide to permit on this 8-bit character type, >> only the conversions to and from integers are useful for individual >> UTF-8 bytes, and they are needed every time for every use of the byte! >> >> A character type should represent characters, with some set of relevant >> operations depending on the design, and UTF-8 sequences should be >> represented as byte sequences with numeric values. >> >> <snip> >> > > WHile individual code points may not be that useful, most of the > program is probably dealing with them as strings, with pointers and > indexes into arrays of them. For most code we don't need 'arithmetic' > on the code point, just basic movement and comparisons. Just to be clear (I wasn't) by "byte sequences with numeric values" I meant byte sequences where the bytes can be treated simply as numbers. > There will need to be some low level functions that takes these > strings and perform some basic operations to get real characters (full > 21+ bit values)) out of them, and those routines will need the > conversion, but making it explicit wouldn't make that code that ugly. Sure. I'm not sure how what you are saying relates to what I'm saying. I think you agreeing that an 8-bit object, on which you can't do arithmetic, but that holds only part of a UTF-8 encoding is not very useful. Agreement being so rare on Usenet am not 100% sure! <snip> -- Ben.
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Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 00:00 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-03 11:29 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 03:37 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-03 12:29 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 04:37 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-03 13:41 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 06:38 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-03 15:13 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-03 15:19 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 07:41 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-03 11:38 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-03 13:50 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-03 11:34 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-03 11:32 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-03 16:41 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 09:02 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 09:06 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-03 12:39 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-03 11:56 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-03 19:54 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-03 18:00 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 01:53 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 13:23 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 11:11 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 14:48 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 12:17 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-04 21:53 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 14:35 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-04 23:32 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-05 06:26 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-05 16:59 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-05 09:44 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-05 18:28 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-02-05 18:41 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-05 20:08 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-02-05 21:27 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-05 22:04 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-02-05 22:38 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-06 01:34 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-06 06:39 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-06 18:07 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-06 12:34 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-06 21:12 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-06 13:42 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-06 16:43 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 01:10 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-06 18:47 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-07 15:13 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-07 14:48 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-07 17:13 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-07 17:27 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-07 17:01 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-07 02:00 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-07 12:02 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-07 14:46 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 13:56 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 11:17 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-06 23:59 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-07 05:10 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 11:01 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-07 14:24 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-07 14:44 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 22:59 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-07 15:20 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-07 23:31 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-07 15:32 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-07 16:05 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-05 15:29 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 17:41 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-04 23:11 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 23:45 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-04 15:11 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-04 23:37 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-04 18:08 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 23:12 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-05 13:08 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-05 08:24 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-05 14:39 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-02-05 10:37 -0600
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-02-05 13:52 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-05 22:29 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-05 09:01 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-05 18:44 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-06 10:42 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-06 11:17 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-06 08:40 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-06 14:08 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-06 14:42 +0000
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-06 12:35 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-06 23:04 +0100
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 17:35 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 14:38 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 17:57 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 15:22 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2018-02-04 12:19 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-04 16:42 -0500
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-02-03 13:38 -0800
Re: Count string in string with loop increase 2, why is this not faster? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-02-03 22:03 +0000
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