[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Can we drop Visual Studio 6 support?

[Bill Lorensen]

Isn't a character a string of one character? Tell me the performance
hit in a typical application.

Bill

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Philippe P. Pebay <pppebay at sandia.gov> wrote:
> No, unfortunately it does not. It appends another string.
> On the other hand, push_back() allows for the addition of one character at a
> time. There is therefore less overhead. This matters when serializing
> multiple packets prior to MPI communication.
> VS 6.0 does not support push_back(). And as I only figured out this morning,
> it does not support clear() either. This is annoying.
>
> P
>
> Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't += do that?
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Pebay, Philippe P <pppebay at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Besides the big red dahsboard few weeks ago with the unicode features,
>>>>> there is no VS60 specific break. The last few days dashboard errors
>>>>> were on most platforms.
>>>
>>> Yes, there is one: push_back on strings.
>>>
>>> P
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> Philippe Pébay
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