[fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

2008-09-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Yes I know we have had lengthy discussions about this before. Everybody (whoever they might be) keeps saying that UTF-16 was chosen for Tiburon's UnicodeString because it makes "significant speed gains" when calling the Windows API based on UTF-16 - compared to the ANSI API's. The whole debate

[fpc-devel] Re: Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

2008-09-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Cantu, as far as I can see, is the only one that shows a > comparison and numbers. Surprisingly, the ANSI calls where faster! Maybe it's due to such reasons that the Delphi EULA forbids posting benchmarks? Lucki

Re: [fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

2008-09-25 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Hi, Yes I know we have had lengthy discussions about this before. Everybody (whoever they might be) keeps saying that UTF-16 was chosen for Tiburon's UnicodeString because it makes "significant speed gains" when calling the Windows API based on UTF-16 - compared to the

Re: [fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

2008-09-25 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Graeme, Thursday, September 25, 2008, 9:50:04 PM, you wrote: GG> Yes I know we have had lengthy discussions about this before. GG> Everybody (whoever they might be) keeps saying that UTF-16 was chosen GG> for Tiburon's UnicodeString because it makes "significant speed gains" GG> when callin

[fpc-devel] c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1 and gtk2 : Required DLL Files

2008-09-25 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Dear Sirs , The examples within the following directories could be compiled with their Makefile use . c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1\ c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk2\ (A) During execution of programs some DLL files are requested which none of them found in either FPC directories or in other Window

Re: [fpc-devel] c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1 and gtk2 : Required DLL Files

2008-09-25 Thread Paul Ishenin
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: (E) When c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk2\gtk_demo\gtk_demo.exe is started , it is giving the following exception message and then closing : -- An unhandled exception occurred at $66E9433E : EDivByZero : Division by zero $66E9433E $66E94B30