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 ...
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Chris "homebody" Dollin
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