On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
OTOH, ResTypes are simpler to use and more efficient than strings
of arbitrary length. I just don't know that the demand for
resource support will ever be large enough to need the infinite
set of reverse-DNS namespace of UTIs.
True, but that's what they said about 32-bit IP addresses too :).
Now that's a good point Gwynne,
You can notice that AX uses 64 bit ints, and sdefs use 8 char codes
for events. But I'll certainly bear your point in in mind for the
future.
In either case, I wouldn't expect the Resource Manager itself to
start playing around with UTIs;
Not directly, but if you read my previous post to John Stiles, you'll
see that I kinda suggested something like UTIRegistry.h for types --
and at the Darwin level.
the chances of Apple actually working on that manager again to that
extent are practically nil. I was thinking more in regards to the
CF/CE APIs that were being discussed, which are places that I'd
expect Apple to be trying to move away from limited namespaces.
I think it would be a coercion.
Like Larry Harris said:
OTOH, ResTypes are simpler to use and more efficient than strings
of arbitrary length.
I don't think there are many things faster than manipulating ints.
Philip Aker
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