On 23/01/12 15:38, ik wrote:
PChar is an array like approach. AnsiString, is a record based pointer.
AnsiString also stores the string in an array. It is dynamic, though, so it stores the size and also reference count.
It uses more memory, and provide a bit overhead for the same thing. At least on theory. I would love to learn that it's not the case.
The only thing you save on here is reference counting, which is probably negligible. That's why I asked if you benchmarked it. Especially since you've already created a bug in trying to use pchar.
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