On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:53:14 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 August 2012 13:03, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > With "not so often" I meant program runtime: it is usually not called in a > > close long running loop. > > I have a program that does exactly that... Loads files to do CRC > checking to see what changed. It's a recursive find-all that goes > through 100k or more files. It's already a slow process on non-SSD > drives processing 12GB or more of data, so adding the multiple > unnecessary string conversions which will be enforced on Linux users > would make that even worse. For me, every optimisation counts. Then you would not use TStrings in the first place. > With some simple trials in various projects I can clearly see a > Unicode RTL with one string type, and native encoding on each platform > as very plausible. One string type and native encoding. Do you mean the current AnsiString? I guess you mean UTF-16/UTF-8 depending on platform. That would be different character sizes, which means lots of IFDEFs in users code. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
