On Wednesday 02 November 2011 17.46:07 Jonas Maebe wrote: > Martin Schreiber wrote on Wed, 02 Nov 2011: > > On Wednesday 02 November 2011 17.13:49 Jonas Maebe wrote: > >> Just like all UTF-16 code in > >> the RTL is slower than what Martin Schreiber would like, and we didn't > >> change it to UCS-2 when he asked to do so for speed reasons. > > > > ??? > > I never asked this. > > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10462 :) ("Please take into > account that this functions are called very often for sorting strings, > optimal performance is essential. I am not sure if the correct > handling of surrogate pairs, which probably not many FPC users really > need, is worth the loss on performance.") > :-) Now this is long time ago... And the emphasis is on performance of string comparing and sorting which still is very bad on Linux.
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