Posted by Neredbojias on 04/10/06 03:41

To further the education of mankind, Toby Inkster
<usenet200604@tobyinkster.co.uk> declaimed:

> Neredbojias wrote:
>
>> As I said - a sop to the geeks. But it's interesting that by
>> starting storage at some "round" number such as 1000, one leaves 999
>> memory addresses before it.
>
> 1000 was just for the purposes of illustration. The array could
> equally be stored at address 0, or 6, or 21890 -- it's not a matter
> for the programmer to worry unduly about -- compilers tend to do a
> pretty good job of slotting tonnes of integers, strings, arrays, etc
> into memory with very little free space in between.

Sure, I don't dispute that point. I think we're actually talking about 2
different levels of programmers here, anyway. My criticism was generally
directed at those programmers who do things "expediently" rather than
thoroughly and properly. A short while ago some kind of wp files were
being discussed wherein you could save a single word and still have
something like a 12k file on disc. I happen to know Wordstar never really
made the transition from DOS to Windows for that very reason.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity can have limits.

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