Just Feedback (sorry for not being able to give more). While developing lzle, at one point I faced a 15%-25% performance drop. The problem was the following: resistance to memory fragmentation over time. This may seem paradoxical, but the less memory was exposed to the risk of fragmentation, the wor...

@marcov !including("tp") is excellent, as usual

I have a dilemma: on the one hand completely leaving aside backwards compatibility is really something very problematic, on the other hand moving forward is necessary. On the one hand the argument for standardization with ARM architecture, on the other it seems clear that regressions are inevitable ...

About : '''Error: Var-len strings cannot be initialized in ''''dim shared fruitname(0 to 2) as string => {"apple", "orange", "banana"}' Using another approach ;-) https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26551 (lzle doc/demo) https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewt...

Hello.
Maybe you could consider using the tool lzle (viewtopic.php?t=26551) ?

Simply because of not having said it often enough, but nevertheless, thank you, really thank you, Jeff and fxm for your involvement in the continuity of the FB project.

@Jeff There is indeed a complexity to the idea. The problem that the developer will be confronted with, in particular, is the reliability of the length of the strings being shorter than defined: this requires filtering the blanks on the right before each assignment, or assuming the fact that the inf...

- On assignment STRING*N pads the string with spaces and does not automatically add a null terminating character. - SWAP will pad values with spaces where one of the arguments is of the STRING*N data type - STRING*N arguments are copied to a temporary string when passed to ZSTRING ptr parameters bec...

Hello everyone, it's been a while! I wondered about the problem of pointers to fixed length strings. The basic type string is very efficient, this is what my tests with lzle (tagmode2) showed. I had studied two other approaches: zstring* (tagmode1) and a kind of micro descriptor (tagmode0) containin...

Hello dodicat. I do not use gcc, but your code fits what I was looking for. Perhaps I ll try extern c and try to compile zlib sources using fb but that is not mandatory. Before that, I have some work on my lzle lib to allow reserved ascii codes, and fix some bugs with hashashtag and tracking, with a...

I Got it 64 bits ok : Thank you a lot ! (I do still a problem with my search path but your exemple works nicely)

Hello. I tried different exemples of compression : zlib, quicklz, bz2 lzo and so
Sounds like a general beginner issue on my config accessing related libraries :
F:\FB64\FreeBASIC-1.09.0-winlibs-gcc-9.3.0\bin\win64\ld.exe: cannot find -llzo2
Dezipped stand alone. Using Fbide.
Thanks.

To better assimilate the "how", it is necessary to understand the "why" a little and therefore to enter a little into the internal functioning.

I fully subscribe to this spirit.

Maybe one could imagine static string passed byref, as an additionnal operator parameter ? I did not try doing it.
My point is not trying to oppose object vs classic ptr. Both cons and advantages.

@Andrew. You're right. I should have thought the algo before posting. Indeed just drafts, perhaps some ideas, but they're not structured. Sorry do not have time to really play with it or think seriously about it. Perhaps am I seeking useless complexity. I should have been a thick less optimistic bef...