Re: [DotGNU]DotGNU Base Library

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Peter Minten wrote:
> Nope, my basic database is what is called random access in some languages,
> simply reading a file consisting of records of fixed size and then showing
> these records to the user.

Ok ... /me gets reminded of Cobol .. (Yow !)

> Oh, well collections can be dotgnu-base or a separate lib. (BioChem333: if you
> want it to be part of dotgnu-base please mail me.) Anyway I got the linked 
> lists in DG-Base (they may come in handy and DG-Base can't link to anything 
> else than pnetlib since it's a base library)  but I won't develop it further 
> then.

I was thinking more of glibc wrappers than anything , especially since I
just love the speed of C ... But of course PInvoke is dependent on libffi
which might be just a small issue.

> I'm not so hot on p/invoking if we can avoid it, and getopt is easy enough
> to do without p/invoke.

Getopt -- yes ... But common data structures in general perform better
with PInvoke , but require slightly complicated coding to manage memory.

Anyway I'm not jumping into the dotgnu-base bandwagon anytime soon , so
I guess I don't have much against your idea.... 

Attached is one of the classes I wrote to test pnet's array routines 
(and found a bug with this). The reason I'm not commiting it directly
is coz I have no time to write the decoding function .... sorry .

Gopal
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