Op Sun, 18 Sep 2011, schreef Torsten:
I do not know exactly which functions need to be changed. I'm hoping for tips.
You will have to be a bit exploring here; AVX is a major upgrade to the
x86 instruction set, and there will likely not be a few routines that need
to be changed.
First
In our previous episode, Fl?vio Etrusco said:
compatibility feature, and as such should care more about correctness
and ease-of-use rather than performance. I thought the endless bugs
WRT to char vs codepoint indexes, even in Java-developed software,
would buy my argument...
IMHO you are
On 19 Sep 2011, at 09:36, Marco van de Voort wrote:
I don't like the Java/C# way that you have to manually allocate extra
objects (stringbuilders etc) to get(performant) access to the characters
though.
In Java that's only the case for changing characters. Reading characters
happens via a
On 19 Sep 2011, at 10:27, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
I partly agree it's PEBKAC, but why make it easy to get wrong when you
can avoid it? Isn't that the point of Pascal? Isn't that the point of
AnsiStrings? Isn't that the point of strong typed languages in
general?
Yes, but supporting unicode
2011/9/18 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
It made, thanks a lot!
You can see for yourself:
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/?root=lazarusview=log
I guess now I can add a link in
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Vincent Snijders
vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/9/18 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
It made, thanks a lot!
You can see for yourself:
In our previous episode, Fl?vio Etrusco said:
IMHO you are seeking the problems in the tools, while the problem is PEBKAC
I partly agree it's PEBKAC, but why make it easy to get wrong when you
can avoid it?
The point is you can't. You only keep the illusion you can marginally longer
at a
Flávio Etrusco schrieb:
IMHO you are seeking the problems in the tools, while the problem is PEBKAC
I partly agree it's PEBKAC, but why make it easy to get wrong when you
can avoid it? Isn't that the point of Pascal?
Many people think that Pascal is an educational (toy) language, and
On 09/18/2011 05:52 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
And of course, finally, there is the matter with Delphi compatibility.
This can't even be discussed regarding Unicode programming as long as
FPC does not have new Strings.
(AFAIK there even are or have been discussions about not doing new
On 09/18/2011 06:49 PM, DaWorm wrote:
But isn't it O(n^2) only when actually using unicode strings?
Allowing the compiler or library decide _if_ this is a Unicode string
would require either a dedicated sting types for each encoding or New
Strings with programmable encoding.
-Michael
10 matches
Mail list logo
