In our previous episode, listmember said: > The last time I joined a relevant discussion, I was told worrying about > native UCS-4 string-type would be pointless simply because that sort of > thing is really needed for word processors only. > > Now, I have been informed that Lazarus (and perhaps other IDEs) use > upwards of 50 MB string space just to do one of their basic operations. > > That leaves me wondering how much do we lose performance-wise in > endlessly decompressing UTF-8 data, instead of using, say, UCS-4 strings.
If you leave about character composition you don't need to for e.g. an often used primitives like "compare an identifier" _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
