>(astonishing that ShortStrings are slower than AnsiStrings in this example in delphi).
Not really. Delphi is silently upcasting your shortstrings to AnsiStrings in the background. You would probably have to recompile the VCL to get around this ;-) Hope that helps, M _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
