[fpc-devel] Patch to speed up Uppercase/Lowercase functions

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Jun 11 19:53:29 CEST 2005



On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Daniƫl Mantione wrote:

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> 
> Op Sat, 11 Jun 2005, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
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> > That is why I use pchar and one uniquestring;
> > It prevents all these automated uniquestring calls.
> 
> Isn't it a better idea to build a new string, i.e. we setlength result and
> copy characters either modified or unmodified? That'll save an unnecessary
> copy of the string.

The Delphi routine does this, but when compiled with FPC, it runs slower.

Michael.


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