In our previous episode, Thaddy said: > > It is. Widestring always worked more or less, on both FPC,Kylix and Delphi. > > But the COM backed versions (FPC2.2+ (?) and Delphi) suffered from > > performance problems > As I wrote it should be opaque ( = transparent, btw). > At least for windows I overcame most of the problems that widestring is > using COM by writing a simple COM Delphi memorymanager replacement years > ago in pre-userspace. Thus all reference counting (at least at block > level, but also for delphi strings) is managed by COM. It is still > available at my website. And yes, it is rather slow. But string > manipulation is slow anyway.
The slow was already relative to the non-COM kylix widestring handling. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
