Re: [DUG]: Empty string test

[Kurt at iadvance]

Myles Penlington wrote:

Nope, That is the most efficient form ie (A = ''). The compiler does a nice
job of optimising it - basically a single instruction - ignoring the jmp

eg cmp dword ptr [es],$00
jnz ...

Well, I always thought the non-intuitive (Pointer(A) = nil)
smoked, but it compiles to the same as (A='') anyway.

Cheers, Kurt.

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