> in an application of mine occurs a lot of string separation and
> re-concatenation. Since it is using masses of ANSI strings this is some
> performance problem.
>
> The strings get stored and loaded from TStringList's and concatenated
> by simply using '+' and separated with the function copy().
You could try to avoid repeated setlengths. However this would require
two passes, something like
tot:=0;
for i:=0 to strlst.count-1 do inc(tot,length(strlst[i]));
setlength(targetstring,tot);
j:=1;
for i:=0 to strlst.count-1 do
begin
move (targetstring[j],strlst[i]);
inc(j,length(strlst[i]));
end;
> What I'd like to know is: What's are fastest ways of handling ANSI
> strings?
- avoid copying of strings if possible
- operate on pchar level in speed dependant parts.
> Since I'm not good at reading assembler code I have to ask ... and yes,
> profiling is planned but not for tomorrow. ;)
Posting more code would help too.
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