Re: Hex2Bin??
| From: | Joshua E Minnie | Date: | Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:56:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Hex2Bin?? | ||
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Expensive how?
-josh
"Bogdan Stancescu" <mgv@fx.ro> wrote:
> I'd recommend writing a wrapper around base_convert, naming it hex2bin
> and using that instead. base_convert() is way too expensive for this
> purpose (you know that any hex figure is translated to exactly four
> bits, so you don't need any actual conversion - just replacement). This
> is why I suggested the wrapper - you can change the code at any time if
> you see it's too time-consuming...