Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 14:20:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: terry@lambert.org, gibbs@plutotech.com, michaelh@cet.co.jp, joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, sysop@mixcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs Message-ID: <199704272120.OAA09531@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704272119.PAA18708@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Apr 27, 97 04:18:01 pm
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> >> the UNICODE->ANSI conversion will lose.
> >
> >Ugh. This is horrifically high overhead. And you wonder why your
> >NT programs seem slower. I think doing the conversion in any case
> >loses.
>
> Where is the overhead if you are a UNICODE NT app? NT is internally
> UNICODE, so if you write your NT app as you're supposed to, there is
> no conversion necessary. Office97 runs much faster on an NT system
> then on a Win95 one and this is one of the reasons.
The overhead is talking to the legacy app, not between the components
of Office 97.
> >or provide your own fooBarW():
> >
> >fooBarW(wchar_t *pwstr)
> >{
> > translate string to ANSI
> > fooBar( pstr);
> >}
>
> This is a broken implementation as it converts to ANSI on an NT system.
You "#ifndef NT" it so it only happens on Win95.
> >The nifty thing about doing it this way is that you can then requse the
> >code for your next project instead of screwing around again.
>
> PowerPoint isolated all of this crap in it's class implementations.
Yes. That was one of the examples I had in mind.
> >I'm willing. 8-).
>
> But you're not a Fortune 500 company that doesn't want to retrain
> umpteen thousand employees to use a new application.
No, I'm an application vendor who wants to sell a new application, so I
have to encourage the training hit one way or another to make any money.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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