On 07/03/2018 12:01 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Tue, July 3, 2018 17:15, Ryan Joseph wrote:
Why is that so crazy slow? Does it need to iterate the entire length of the
string to know it’s length? >
Yes, that's indeed the difference between Pascal strings
(Short/Ansi/Wide/UnicodeString) and C-like PChars.
absolutely! i truly hated having to add loops to my string handling code when
working with ""C strings"" as we used to call them back in the day... the huge
advantage of "Pascal strings" is their length being specified at the beginning
of the character array they are stored in...
i think i'm still waiting for the string "length byte" becoming a "length word"
or possibly a "length long" so the speed of pascal strings can be reacquired -=B-)
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