Subj : Re: Win98 error
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Gerhard Wolfstieg <Wolfstieg@t-online.de>
Date : Sun Mar 14 2004 10:53 pm

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] wrote:

> My machine is now thought of as slow, 850MHz, Pentium III.  If your
> program started in 10 seconds on my machine then if the program's
> unitialized global and static data were set to zero as the language
> specifies I would think it still measure out as 10 seconds.

     Ed,

yes, I agree here and with my first posting I was wrong.
   Additionally I did want to point out  1. that there were compilers where
it was possible to violate standard  2. that from the first use of one of
these on it seems to me a good practice to initialize data visibly in
source in exactly those cases where BC compilers don't produce a message of
unused initialisation, even if it is not necessary (with zeros). (And I
state that initialising huge arrays was consuming noticeable time and would
do it till now on my special purpose machines.) 
  As a third I feel that seen from a higher point:  wrapping information
with a small story of context (when possible) is sometimes the adequate
form and writing always has a special meaning for me.

     Gerhard

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