On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > > "short" makes me go: "Hu! Why? Anything special going on here?"
> >
> > why not save some memory ?
>
> The saving is negligible (compared to the memory already used by the map, and
> the memory used to hold the font).
We have to hold the font already, the map is the only overhead. But I'm
not mega-bothered
> > Because we have to modify the std::map
>
> You can declare the map mutable.
This seems a dubious use at best to me. It's not being used to keep
const available on a logically-const method ...
> PS: A possible optimization is to hold in addition to the map
> an array that stores the widths for the unicode chars 32-127 (the most
> common chars).
> Of course, I don't know if this will give any speedup, or if it worths the
> extra code.
Well, I'm burned out after 4 or 5 different implementations...
regards
john
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