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Subject: Re: Summary of 'Good Ways to...'
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Date: 30 Apr 91 00:39:14 GMT
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In <1991Apr29.174413.5473@rick.cs.ubc.ca> b3300876@rick.cs.ubc.ca (george chow) writes:

>Awhile back I posted two questions about doing things in RPL. I got a bunch of
>replies back. Here's a summary. 


>and got the following: 
>	VNUMTABLE	29.9 sec 
>	VTABLE1		24.0 sec 
>	VTABLE2		23.6 sec 
>	VML			0.133 sec 

Gee, I didn't realise that my routine was that much faster,  I never tested
it that way.  I just put the string on the stack and timed it on my watch and
got my estimated timings (<1 second pretty much reguardless of string length :-)


>It was pointed out to me that Donneley's Toolkit has Saturn version of both of
>these functions. I was aware of that and in fact intend to get that toolkit.
>However, I wanted to see how far plain RPL will go. 

>Thanks for all the responses. Just FEI, I needed these routine for my own 
>address book program. (I know, I know, this is probably the n-th version 
>being written for the 48 but I didn't like the ones I've seen...) I'll 
>post mine if anyone's interested. (Maybe I'll try out the new 
>comp.sys.hp48 group when it becomes official.)

Go ahead and write it, and even post it.  Nobody is going to get hurt by it and
some people may gain some benefit.  I know that I haven't found an address book
program that I like much.  I have other projects that comsume a lot of my time,
if I didn't I'd write such a program (I may eventually anyway).

If you do write this and intend to post it to the world at large, could you
please avoid using rountines from Donneley's Toolkit.  It isn't that the
toolkit is bad, I am sure it isn't.  It is just that some people do not own
the toolkit (I don't and even though I will eventually buy it, I will avoid
using its functions in code I write, that I intend to post).  Writing your
own version of the routines that you need is always possible, you just
have to say that the Toolkit contains a faster version of this routine etc etc.




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