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- 08 Dec 2011 22:41
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Proposal to set a standard ECHO charactr to show blank lines
- Replies: 12
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Proposal to set a standard ECHO charactr to show blank lines
To display a blank line in a Batch file, or a line with the value of a variable that may be empty, we used to include certain characters in ECHO command: ECHO., ECHO/, ECHO(, etc. I think it would be a good idea to agree in a standard character that be both effective and clear for everybody, even th...
- 07 Dec 2011 20:25
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Why does SET performance degrade as environment size grows?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 59007
Re: Why does SET performance degrade as environment size gro
I got a new idea on my method. The goal is to avoid the excessive data movement from one memory location to another when the SET command store a variable. Let´s suppose that after we had defined the 128 large variables named z1..z128 (as I suggested in my previous post) the program start the real pr...
- 06 Dec 2011 22:43
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Why does SET performance degrade as environment size grows?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 59007
Re: Why does SET performance degrade as environment size gro
I devised an idea that may solve, at least in part, the performance problems of SET command caused by a very large environment. Let's suppose that the internal operation of SET VAR=VALUE command follow these steps: ⋅ When a new variable is defined with a value that exceed the current envir...