Daniël Mantione wrote: > > Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Vincent Snijders: > > >>Daniël Mantione wrote: >> >>> >>>What should be done on Linux/FreeBSD/MacOS is still unknown to me, it is >>>a wild west, but likely something similar, internally a widestring rtl is >>>used that converts to the right encoding when communicating externally. >> >>Does that mean string operations will be twice a slow? > > > I don't think so. A string copy operation for a wide string needs to move > twice as much data as a string copy operation for an ansistring. However, > when walking through it, (take the widestring version of pos for example) > the amount of work per character does not change.
Modern CPUs are memory bandwidth limited usually so widestrings a lot slower. > > The big trouble is the conversion stuff when you need communication with > the outside world. > > Daniël > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
