In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > >>> widestrings are not reference counted. > >>> > >> Some more tests, starting MSEide, loading and highlighting the 277441 lines > >> MacOSAll.pas from FPC 2.4.0: > >> > >> FPC 2.6.2 Windows 3.2..3.5s > >> Delphi 7 Windows 4.0s > >> FPC 2.6.2 Linux 5.0s > >> Kylix 3 Linux 4.0s. > >> > >> It seems there is actually a benefit of the reference counted Free Pascal > >> UnicodeStrings on Windows. > > Speculation on the reasons: > > macosall is mostly a header (declarations), while the other programs > > probably have a higher code % ? > What does the content of MacOSAll have to do with being mostly > declarations? Martin just wrote that he used differently compiled > MSEides to highlight the same unit (though I wonder why the FPC Linux > variant is the slowest...)
Yes, I took it as those compilers compiling, not as compiled loading and highlighting. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
