On Tuesday 03 January 2012 22.33:23 IvankoB for-mse wrote: > >From my short LINUX C/C++ experience, it looks really difficult to > > write resourse-relaxed apps for LINUX. Just look into GTK2+, KDE4+ etc > application "bricks". Also all they're C++ based thus a lot of dynamic > memory fragmentation which means 1000s times as worse usage of CPU > cache etc. Work with unicode is a nightmare too - simple charset > conversion involves a lot of code & memory reallocations just for a > SINGLE string. Very-very inefficients. Just multiply this single > slowliness on thousands of strings when desktop is running ! That's : > the LINUX GUI API has become too high-level (C++ based) against > lowe-level win-32 API (C-based). Eeasier to program but much more > resource hungry so that even modern hardware has got saturated once > LINUX desktops tried more advanced eye candings. > Agreed. For MSEgui I often use dynamic arrays instead of TList or even PChar and pointer arithmetic instead of String for performance reasons, one of the reasons I fought against the Delphi like code page aware strings in FPC which have even more overhead.
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