On 14/06/2023 14:20, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I was curious, if you had a Pascal (short) string and it was going to be passed
around often would that be slower than using an AnsiString since its size is
that of a pointer? I always prefer short strings when I know the length will be
l
> On Jun 14, 2023, at 8:30 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> For parameters that are passed by value, the copying most likely will be
> slower since all bytes from the string must be copied to the new string.
>
> For var parameters it should not matter.
ah yes var. What ab
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I was curious, if you had a Pascal (short) string and it was going to be
passed around often would that be slower than using an AnsiString since
its size is that of a pointer? I always prefer short strings when I know
the length will be
I was curious, if you had a Pascal (short) string and it was going to be passed
around often would that be slower than using an AnsiString since its size is
that of a pointer? I always prefer short strings when I know the length will be
less than 255 but can copying that value between function c
