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Date:Mon Apr 4 08:30:43 2000 
Subject:Re: Language dependent error messages (Was from Jonathan Cunningham about Macintosh implementations) 
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Volume-ID:1000404.04 

In article <8c2c7j$vmf$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
	jlc@sofluc.co.uk writes:
> Kers says:
> 
>>(d) but the messages take up space in the executable all the time, even
>>if you always use French or Italian or German or Dutch or Finnish or
> American
>>spelling.

Embedded systems.

(And you haven't seen how long some of my messages turn out to be!)

> 
> Not really a problem, nowadays, since a megabyte of string space would
> correspond to a whole book of message text.
> 
>>(e) the lookup is a performance overhead.
> 
> It's not likely to be a significant overhead.

True, but I wanted to be honest. If the messages are warnings or worse,
you hope not to get many of them anyway ...

-- 
Chris "homebody" Dollin
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