Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-28 08:35 PM
POLL: String Expressions

This question deals with the use of string expressions in KiXtart v4.22 RC1.

[ 28. October 2003, 20:47: Message edited by: sealeopard ]


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-28 08:55 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

what does "string expression" mean exactly?

Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-28 09:03 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

"string expression" is copied directly from the KiXtart Manual. Thus, it means whatever the KiXtart Manual refers to.

LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-28 09:38 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

well, lookin at manual my answer was "right"
but manual is not telling the truth there.
the limit said there is really non-existent in many string expressions in kixtart.


Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-29 04:13 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Jens,

You should explain more or maybe post the questions or maybe you should let everyone see the results. As it is now, it seems that I have to vote in order to understand the issue. Without knowing the issue I don't want to participate because I might bias your results if I found out I couldn't contribute effectively.


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-29 04:21 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I at least know there must be 1 wrong answer according to the spreadness of the answers.

Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-29 06:26 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Jack:

I just like to know how long a string in Kixtart can be. And I'm curious whether any of the Kixtart coders actually know the correct answer.

The question is: "How many characters can a string expression contain?" with regards to KiXtart v4.22 RC1 (the one I've tested it with) and is taken literally from the KiXtart Manual but reworded to form a question.

The reason you have to vote first is to not generate a me-too result where everybody just votes for whatever the majority has voted for.

And the majority has so far voted incorrectly!


Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 06:57 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Jens, do you have the definitive answer? Is the answer from Ruud or from testing?

Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-29 07:19 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

The funny thing is: I don't know the correct anwser either. I have a suspicion but my test script has not yet reached the stage where it could provide the definite anwser.

LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-29 07:25 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

lol.
well, according to your first reply about manual, I know what manual says.
I also know that it isn't correct in all cases.
although, some limitations apply.


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-29 09:36 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

LOL2

first test results
code:
 
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768
65536
131072
262144
524288
1048576
2097152
4194304
8388608
16777216
33554432
67108864
134217728
268435456
536870912
1073741824
-2147483648
0



Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-29 09:44 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

What's that? String length of negative 2 billion characters? [Big Grin]

Mart
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 10:35 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Voted according the manual.

Getting some doubts now though.
Did some googling and stumbled onto this:

http://www.dotnetforums.net/t76702.html

I know its .NET but the basics seem correct to me.


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-29 10:39 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I know what the Manual says. I also know that some people have used code, e.g. in the KiXgolf competition, that contradicts the Manual. However, nobody has so far commented on this or even offered a new max string length.

MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-29 10:48 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

auch,

hitting the int limit...

Now using doubles.

and counting...

[ 29. October 2003, 22:51: Message edited by: MightyR1 ]


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-29 10:59 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

pat, the lenght will raise like shit and what longer it gets, that slower kix will become.
just like with large arrays.

what comes to the limitation, it still holds at least with console output and some other stuff.


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-29 11:07 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

code:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
31919
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
31920

31921

31922

My final guess: max_string_expression = 31920 characters


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-29 11:24 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

lol, you fell for that.
your quess has no base [Wink]


Mart
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:43 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Tried this:

code:
$string1 = "1"
Do
$string1 = $string1 + 1
$rc = Len($string1)
?$rc
Until $rc = "32000"
?$string1

And stopped getting a value out of $string1 at 30704.

Patrick:
How did you get your 31920?
I guess I did sort of the same you did?

Totally different values. Maybe this is not the way to find out max string length.


Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:46 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I was playing with much larger strings and ran out of virtual memory. Kixtart never complained at all.
code:
$z="1234567890"
for $x=1 to 1024
$y=$y+$z
next
? len($y)
for $c=1 to 1024
$y=$y+$y
? len($y)
next
? len($y)



[ 29. October 2003, 23:57: Message edited by: Howard Bullock ]


ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:48 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Not sure why people are guessing 32Kb because we all know it is much bigger than that ... I will toss my hat into the ring and guess the following:

2,147,483,648


Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:50 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

That was my guess as well. Unfortunately I do not have the memory to test it.

ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:51 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Was this your guess, or did you guess the number in the survey, which is one less.

Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-29 11:57 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Details, details. The number in the survey was my guess.

This is the output from my test program so far. The value is length of the string.

10240
20480
40960
81920
163840
327680
655360
1310720
2621440
5242880
10485760
20971520
41943040
83886080
167772160


ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 12:01 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Just teasing ... but other than Ruud, who knows the answer ... Jens, do you know the answer ?

[edit]

Oh yeah, do we get a KORG t-shirt if we're right ?

[ 30. October 2003, 00:04: Message edited by: Shawn ]


Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:05 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

It is big but I do not have the memory or time at home to test it. Shawn's guess sounds reasonable but so do all the last 3 suggestions offered by jens.

Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 12:10 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Last output...
335544320

Computer is crawling everything is being done in virtual memory...

[ 30. October 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: Howard Bullock ]


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:10 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I used this:

code:
Break on
$a='a'
$i=1.0
While 1
$a=$a+'a'
$i=$i+1
? $a ? $i
If $i > 32000
Play "1g256t1d500f1g256t1d400f1g256t1d600f"
Get $x
EndIf
Loop

wait for the beep, scroll a little upwards and see that after 31920 the string isn't displayed anymore...

Anyone know why??

[ 30. October 2003, 00:11: Message edited by: MightyR1 ]


Mart
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 12:12 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Same results here using Howard's code (first post 167772160). Stopped at this score cause the performace became realy bad.
So Howard's code sort of proved that my code s#@$cks [Roll Eyes]

Kix32.exe using almost 300 MB of memory [Eek!] LOL [Big Grin]

[ 30. October 2003, 00:17: Message edited by: R2D2 ]


Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 12:13 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

STDOUT limitation?

MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:20 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

ok then no string output...

sofar: 268435456
using
code:
Break on
$a='a'
While 1
$a=$a+$a
? 'len = ' Len($a)
loop



[ 30. October 2003, 00:24: Message edited by: MightyR1 ]


ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 12:29 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

one of the interesting problems - when one does hit the max string size - the script will probably crap with an expression too long error and you will never be able to capture that last accurate count.

Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:38 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I put in a print to file every 1000th loop plus I checked the error code immediately after the extension figuring it might keep going but put out an error code. Into about a million, I got nothing.

MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:38 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I have not been paying attention to my output [Frown]

Just looked and it returned lengths of 0...

Will run again with get $x...

Funny:  -


Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 12:49 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I tried something like this but so far got nothing.

code:
redirectoutput("d:\kixgolf\kixstr.txt",1)
dim $a, $b, $c, $d
$a=1
$b='d'
DO
$a=$a+1
$b=$b+'d'
$d=@error
$c=$a/1000
if ($a=1000*$c)
? $a
endif
UNTIL $a=2147483648 or $d<>0 or len($b)<>$a
? ' *** stopped *** ' $a



MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 01:01 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

String with length 268435456 added with same string gave me a new length of zero!!!
This was on a P4, 2.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM

Will now run on a P2, 400 Mhz with 192 MB RAM


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 01:07 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Next Q...

is my previous result the max value of a string expression, or is it the max 'len' can handle???

How to test this???


Howard Bullock
(KiX Supporter)
2003-10-30 01:14 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Use SPLIT and ubound.

Build a string of a million byte and add a delimiter. Then when Length goes to "0" split the string and check ubound.


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 01:14 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

P2 results using
code:
Break on
$a='a'
While 1
$a=$a+$a
? 'Len = ' Len($a)
Get $x
Play '1g256t1d500f'
? 'Running...'
Loop

gave me
code:
Len = 2
Running...
::
::
::
Len = 67108864
Running...
Len = 134217728
Running...
ERROR : out of memory!
Script: D:\Temp\tst.kix
Line : 4

Looking at this, maybe the RAM determines the limit???

Can't test more @home, will try at work if time allows [Wink]


Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 01:30 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I am not sure but I don't think there is any limit what so ever. I just ran this code

code:
redirectoutput("d:\kixgolf\kixstr.txt",1)
dim $i, $e, $str
$i=1
$str='x'
DO
$i=4*$i
$str=$str+$str+$str+$str
$e=@error
? $i
UNTIL $e<>0 or len($str)<>$i
? ' *** stopped *** ' $i

and it seemed to effectively stop at$i=67,108,864. At this point I was using amost all my physical memmory & almost all my virtual memory & nothing was happening. When I tried opening other apps to see if I could find out what was happening the system became unstable & started shutting down apps & trying to reboot. at this point my best guess is it corrupted the virtual memory file because I keep getting a disk check error on reboot. Fortunately, my machine is dual boot & I was able to do a diskcheck from the 2nd version & rectify the problem.


NTDOCAdministrator
(KiX Master)
2003-10-30 02:05 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

So many different scripts. Well if someone will post (and agree) on a valid script to really test this, then I'll run it on one of our 6BG RAM Quad 2.0GHz Xeon systems and see what I get.

May take a couple days to get to this though.


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-30 04:43 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Interesting, isn't it?

I'm currently running a test script on one of our work computers and it's at
code:
String length = 133,300,000 = 130,175 kB = 127 MB

while adding 100,000 characters to the string on each iteration.

Personally, I think that the limit might be the same number as the number of elements in an array (according tot he KiXtart v4.22 RC1 Manual)

I was actually interested to see if anyone can fidn the solution before asking Ruud ;-)

And based on the poll, only two people have voted for the number I suspect is the winning one. Most went for the incorrectly documented 32,000 character limit. [Big Grin]


Jack Lothian
(MM club member)
2003-10-30 06:14 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

The last script I posted was looping through using base 4. It succeeded in creating a string of 67,108,864 characters but it died trying to add 201,326,592 characters to the string. Unfortunately it did not die nicely. It seemed to just bring the OS to a halt. If it died nicely, I figured I would alter my script so it iteratively converged on the appropriate number by lowering the base & resetting the starting point to the last successful size. It would have been reasonably fast too but it required the loop to end with some kind of error condition.

My machine at home only has 256M but I have it set so the virtual memory is 1GB. When the system hung most of this virtual memory was being used.


NTDOCAdministrator
(KiX Master)
2003-10-30 06:28 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Thanks Jack,

Still waiting for a VALID script to use for testing on Server. [Wink]


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-30 05:08 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

NTDOC: Here's my test script

code:
cls
break on

$rc=setoption('NoVarsInStrings','on')
$rc=setoption('Explicit','on')

dim $StartStringLength, $FinalStringLength, $StringSegmentLength, $StringSegmentsToAdd
dim $SegmentCount, $CurrentStringLength, $CurrentSize, $StringSegment

$StartStringLength=0
$FinalStringLength=25000000000
$StringSegmentLength=10000000

$StringSegmentsToAdd=cdbl($FinalStringLength)/$StringSegmentLength

dim $StringSegmentPart[$StringSegmentLength/1000], $String[cdbl($StartStringLength)/$StringSegmentLength]
$StringSegmentPart=join($StringSegmentPart,'abcdefghij')
$StringSegment=''
for $SegmentCount=1 to 100
$StringSegment=$StringSegment+$StringSegmentPart
next
$SegmentCount = 0

if ubound($StartStringLength)
$String=join($String,'abcdefghij')
endif
;$rc=redirectoutput(@SCRIPTDIR+'\stringtest.txt')

? 'String Length Start = ' + formatnumber(len($String),0,-1)
? 'String Length Final = ' + formatnumber($FinalStringLength,0,-1)
? 'String Segment Length = ' + formatnumber(len($StringSegment),0,-1)
? '# Segments To Add = ' + formatnumber($StringSegmentsToAdd,0,-1)

while $SegmentCount<$StringSegmentsToAdd and not @ERROR
$String=$String+$StringSegment
$SegmentCount=$SegmentCount+1
$CurrentStringLength=cdbl(len($String))
$CurrentSize=val($CurrentStringLength/1024/1024)
? 'Current String Length ('+formatnumber($SegmentCount,0,-1)+') = ' + formatnumber($CurrentStringLength,0,-1) + ' = ' +formatnumber($CurrentSize,0,-1) +' MB'
loop
if not @ERROR
? 'Final String Length ('+formatnumber($SegmentCount,0,-1)+') = ' + formatnumber($CurrentStringLength,0,-1) + ' = ' +formatnumber($CurrentSize,0,-1) +' MB'
else
? 'Error at step '+$SegmentCount+' = ' + formatnumber(len($String),0,-1)+ ' = '+formatnumber(cdbl(len($String))/1024/1024,0,-1)+' MB'
endif

exit 0



[ 30. October 2003, 17:09: Message edited by: sealeopard ]


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-30 09:50 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

k, I will start testing too.
running on Pentium pro (200MHz) but with like 5,2G of mem.


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-30 09:57 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

pat, how come your messenger is logged off? [Wink]

MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-31 07:22 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Had to go do a little fitness [Wink] Therefore pc not turned on

BTW I now get KiX errors telling me I'm 'Out of memory'...

Jens, your script gave me:

String Length Start = 0
String Length Final = -769,803,776
String Segment Length = 10,000,000
# Segments To Add = -77
Final String Length (0) = 0 = 0 MB

Huh???

[ 31. October 2003, 07:27: Message edited by: MightyR1 ]


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-31 11:41 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

pretty effective mem usage with nul-string!
I got 35M mem usage with 21.000.000 long string...


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-11-01 12:42 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

btw, noticed now how much I hate wintosh.

anyway, going from physical mem to virtual (with w2k and 64MB it's pretty quickly) slows things down quite a lot.
CPU is at 0-5% all the time and most of the time even HD's are quite silent (scsi-drives).

started crawling at 20M and now the speed... well, there is none.

not that HD is slow but windows makes the virtual management so slow that everything is sloow.
if someone has a machine with 6-7G of ram, please shoot in.
disable virtual mem and kick in with FAST results.


Richard H.Administrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-11-01 12:53 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Just another little wrinkle to add in as this is a mostly academic exercise.

When catenating strings you will be creating copies (expressions on internal stacks, temporary copies for assigning).

This means that unless you are very careful the limitation (memory/machine stability) will not be the string size, but the total size of the string(s) in the expression and the temporary copies.

It also means that KiXtart may be able to handle different string sizes, depending on what you are doing with them.


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-31 02:51 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

268.499.168 and counting...

Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-10-31 03:24 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

310,000,000 and counting ;-)

Personally, I think the max string length is 2,147,483,647.


MightyR1
(MM club member)
2003-10-31 03:28 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Think not...

adding 268435456 char string with 65536 char string gave "out of memory"...


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-10-31 03:34 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

jens, making the poll now would make much more sofisticated results as most of us would know what you really asked...

as a BTW...

ps, pat, you still offline...


NTDOCAdministrator
(KiX Master)
2003-11-04 01:29 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Think I found the limit (at least according to Jens script).

Script ran on
HP/Compaq DL580-G3
Quad Xeon 2.0GHz CPU w/2MB L3 Cache
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
6GB RAM


The script starts to rebuild at 448MB

quote:
Current String Length (87)=390,000,000=371 MB
Current String Length (88)=400,000,000=381 MB
Current String Length (89)=410,000,000=391 MB
Current String Length (90)=420,000,000=400 MB
Current String Length (91)=430,000,000=410 MB
Current String Length (92)=440,000,000=419 MB
Current String Length (93)=450,000,000=429 MB
Current String Length (94)=460,000,000=438 MB
Current String Length (95)=470,000,000=448 MB
Current String Length (96)=0=0 MB
Current String Length (97)=10,000,000=9 MB
Current String Length (98)=20,000,000=19 MB
Current String Length (99)=30,000,000=28 MB
Current String Length (100)=40,000,000=38 MB
Current String Length (101)=50,000,000=47 MB
Current String Length (102)=60,000,000=57 MB
Current String Length (103)=70,000,000=66 MB
Current String Length (104)=80,000,000=76 MB
Current String Length (105)=90,000,000=85 MB
Current String Length (106)=100,000,000=95 MB
Current String Length (107)=110,000,000=104 MB
Current String Length (108)=120,000,000=114 MB
Current String Length (109)=130,000,000=123 MB
Current String Length (110)=140,000,000=133 MB
Current String Length (111)=150,000,000=143 MB
Current String Length (112)=160,000,000=152 MB
Current String Length (113)=170,000,000=162 MB
Current String Length (114)=180,000,000=171 MB
Current String Length (115)=190,000,000=181 MB
Current String Length (116)=200,000,000=190 MB
Current String Length (117)=210,000,000=200 MB
Current String Length (118)=220,000,000=209 MB
Current String Length (119)=230,000,000=219 MB
Current String Length (120)=240,000,000=228 MB
Current String Length (121)=250,000,000=238 MB


 -

[ 04. November 2003, 01:32: Message edited by: NTDOC ]


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-11-04 03:02 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Now, that would be an unexpected value. [Confused]

Still waiting for my script to finish on a slow P4-3.06 with 1GB RAM. [Frown]


LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-11-04 03:34 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

with this task, the processor speed indeed is not a matter.
only the physical ram amount does a difference.


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-11-04 04:06 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Not really. There's a lot of memory duplication going on, thus the RAM speed is also a factor as well as the HD speed in case the swapfile needs ot be used.

Anyway, got it up to 450MB and will not try smaller increments at a baseline of 450MB.

[ 04. November 2003, 16:07: Message edited by: sealeopard ]


Glenn BarnasAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-11-04 05:48 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Interesting..

Here's a quick test - the string length doubles each iteration. It was run on a server with 2G of RAM. Obviously it's more than 32767 bytes! My script ran out of RAM (and 100% CPU cycles!) when going from 512Meg to 1Gig string length. I suppose I could trap this and grow the string incrementally after 512Meg, but hey - it's a scripting language! Why would I need more than 512Meg long strings?? [Big Grin]
(actually, I started increasing the string length by 32K right after 512M, and only got one segment of 32K beyond the 512M point..)

Glenn

code:
 
String Length: 1
String Length: 2
String Length: 4
String Length: 8
String Length: 16
String Length: 32
String Length: 64
String Length: 128
String Length: 256
String Length: 512
String Length: 1024
String Length: 2048
String Length: 4096
String Length: 8192
String Length: 16384
String Length: 32768 <= exceeds spec in manual here
String Length: 65536
String Length: 131072
String Length: 262144
String Length: 524288
String Length: 1048576
String Length: 2097152
String Length: 4194304
String Length: 8388608
String Length: 16777216
String Length: 33554432
String Length: 67108864
String Length: 134217728
String Length: 268435456
String Length: 536870912

ERROR : out of memory!
Script: C:\temp\s.kix
Line : 11

It took about 2:36 to get to this point

Here's the script:
code:
 
Break On

Dim $L, $S
$L = 0.0
$S = 'X'

$L = Len($S)
'String Length: $L' ?

While @ERROR = 0
$S = $S + $S
$L = Len($S)
'String Length: $L' ?
Loop



LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-11-04 09:53 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

doing a golf with your script gives:
code:
Dim $L, $S
$S = 'X'
While @ERROR = 0
'String Length:' Len($S) ?
$S = $S + $S
Loop



ShaneEP
(MM club member)
2003-11-05 01:02 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

What?? Post a question that has the incorrect answer in the manual? I thought that would be considered blasphemy with all the RTFM's I see around here. [Big Grin]

NTDOCAdministrator
(KiX Master)
2003-11-05 07:46 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

ROFLMAO You tell em CitrixMan

LonkeroAdministrator
(KiX Master Guru)
2003-11-05 11:44 AM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

it wasn't me!
it was jens!


Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-11-06 07:12 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Lessof-of-the-day: Don't believe everything you read! [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Wink]

ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-11-06 07:30 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

I was hoping that when Ruud stopped by this morning, that he would put us out of our string misery - instead, I think he and Jens just want to "string us along" a bit further (groan) ...

Please, just shoot us and tell the answer [Wink]

-Shawn


ShawnAdministrator
(KiX Supporter)
2003-11-11 07:05 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

Does anyone have any more info to add to this ? I get the feeling that the practical (vs theoretical) string size limit is around 512mb ?

Sealeopard
(KiX Master)
2003-11-11 07:33 PM
Re: POLL: String Expressions

It seems to be more around 480MB but I haven't had time to actually narrow it down to the byte [Frown]