> On Jun 25, 2019, at 2:16 PM, Jonas Maebe <jo...@freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> On 25/06/2019 20:15, Ryan Joseph wrote:
>> I’m making some string helper functions and using ansistring as inputs (in
>> case there are longer strings than 255 chars). What happens when you pass a
>> short string as an ansistring? Does the compiler have to allocate a new
>> ansistring or can it do some smart optimization?
>
> It has to allocate a new ansistring.
Ouch. That means I need to make lots of overloads. This is a prime candidate
for generics then but I’m still waiting for my
“implicitfunctionspecializations” modeswitch patch to be accepted.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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