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Or maybe we should boycott character variables for all new development. Is there a performance issue of simply defining long chars instead of chars even though they will only hold a few bytes? I think this is a reasonable approach – I tend to do the same. I have not measured performance. -- peter From: ujj1 [mailto:bounce-ujj1@community.progress.com] Sent: Monday, 24 March, 2014 11:55 To: TU.OE.Development@community.progress.com Subject: longcharacter data type longcharacter data type Thread created by ujj1 Sometimes I wish that there was only one character datatype and not two datatypes; char for strings less than 32k and longchar for strings larger than 32k. What if we entertain the idea of getting rid of longchar and making character handle large strings. What would that look like? Or maybe we should boycott character variables for all new development. Is there a performance issue of simply defining long chars instead of chars even though they will only hold a few bytes? Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse.
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