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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NOT Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
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Date: 11 Jan 90 21:37:50 GMT
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In article <14186@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>...at least in principle, Fortran should be faster at character manipulation
>than C.  [null-terminated strings are less efficient]

It depends on what operations you're trying to perform.  Some are faster with
counted strings, others with null-terminated strings.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@haddock.isc.com or ima!haddock!karl), The Walking Lint