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To: Joe NYC who wrote (94400)2/20/2000 8:10:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1573069
 
Joe,

Is there going to be any benefit in handling strings on the 64 bit CPUs?

If you view a string as being a set of contiguous memory locations, a wide datapath provides the opportunity to move them in and out at double the speed.

Scumbria