RE: converting string to a numeric

Just an observation.

Not that I want to enter this memory war (because I am a big fan of big
fields - 256 being my favorite ;-), but in my mind you have to look at
how your comments are relative to the bandwidth/memory of the day.  One
could say that if you were using 1k of disk space for a program that you
wrote in 1985 you would be hogging a lot of your 8000k drive (1/8000th).
If a guy writes a program in 2004 that is using a 100k XML file (10 x
10k given your calculation of XML's size) on a machine with 100,000,000k
that would be using 1/1,000,000th of the drive.  (Note this is just an
example).  So it appears as though hardware has outpaced new
technologies additional space needs :-)


  I wasn't even in kindergarten by 1985 so I am speaking from what I
have heard and read:-)

Aaron Bartell


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Subject: RE: converting string to a numeric

This reminds me of a discussion some time ago around XML.
No problem that data represented in XML format is at minimum 10 times
larger than the original data. BandWith has become cheap and widely
available. So crank the amount of data up to make sure that the result
becomes 'just as slow'.
 
Eduard.