Every time you concatenate strings with +=, it gets slower and slower

Report generation processes that finished in an instant when handling 100 items became noticeably slow once they exceeded 10,000 items, and by 100,000 items, they appeared to have frozen. If you have ...
InfoWorld

User-defined variables in JavaScript

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...
Visual Studio Magazine

C# Goes Back to BASICs with Local Functions

C# finally gets the BASIC GOSUB feature through local functions, but local functions take that GOSUB-like capability up a few notches. If you're an old-timer like me, you probably remember the ...
Embedded

Manipulating C strings safely

A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...
Ars Technica

C++ Variable-length character strings

That's (variable length character) strings, not just strings of varying lengths. What I am interested in is having string classes (and stream classes, if possible) whose character data is encoded in ...