[Gambas-user] Is the &= efficient?

[Cedron Dawg]

A little thinking helps.  I'm going with alloc/memory/free, because I have an idea how much space I will need.

Having +=, -=, *=, etc is a huge plus for me compared to other BASICs. 

Open question (also asked at forum.gambas.one) to all.

Do you prefer

Inc x
Dec x

or 

x += 1
x -= 1

?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Benoît Minisini" <g4mba5 at gmail.com>

&= is just syntactic sugar. A &= B is the same thing as A = A & B, and 
so using &= for adding a string to a buffer does a lot of useless 
allocations.

Two workarounds:

1) Using a second string as an intermediate buffer.

2) Using OPEN STRING instruction. It implements a string buffer, and so 
does less allocations.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini

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