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Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]
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Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]


  • Subject: Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:52:28 +1100

On 1/3/02 11:23 AM +1000, has, email@hidden, wrote:

> BTW, this always makes me wonder why some folk use ("" &
> someString) instead of (someString as string) as the former is really bad
> design and significantly slower.

I haven't tested this for a while, but I can't see any "significant"
difference in speed. But I do remember that when it became all the vogue, it
had definite speed advantages -- that's _why_ it was used.

Meanwhile OMM, "someString as text" is faster than "someString as string".

--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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