> On Jan 9, 2018, at 3:30 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Recently I did a very simple test with Delphi XE3 using TList<Integer> and a
> stock TList. Adding 50,000 and 200,000 integer values to each list, and
> timing the creation of the list and population of the list. Then I also timed
> the destruction of the list. I was horified to find out how much slower
> Delphi's Generics were compared to TList and TObjectList. Destruction was
> 250x slower in many cases. Creation and population of the list was 5x-10x
> slower.
What does this have to do with generics exactly? If I understand correctly
generics are “meta-programming” where they essentially just re-insert a
generated class based on the template (c++’s naming scheme makes more sense
imo) but they don’t actually add any runtime code.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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