cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Florian Klaempfl]

Martin Schreiber schrieb:
> On Tuesday 10 November 2009 12:45:26 Michael Schnell wrote:
>> Martin Schreiber wrote:
>>> Performance and simplicity. MSEgui does not need the overhead of
>>> multi-encoding/multi-charsize. At the moment msestring=UnicodeString for
>>> FPC 2.4 which is perfect. I fear FPC will drop this simple solution where
>>> it was ahead of Delphi.
>> Hmmm. I suppose with Linux (using utf-8 for the GUI interface to the
>> user programs), having the user program always use Widestring internally
>> and convert any GUI input and output string will feature an enormous
>> overhead.
>>
> Xlib and Xft have an utf-16 interface. Windows has an utf-16 interface. MSEgui 
> is faster than Lazarus with Gtk2 and even faster as Lazarus with Gtk1 on 
> Linux IIRC.
> 
>> I feel that just handling the multi-encoding String-management record
>> (with "encoding"6 and "character-size", which, in the case of GUI
>> generated and "meant for GUI" Strings, always is equal), would not
>> impose much overhead over using using the plain old String management
>> with just "reference-counter" and "contents-pointer".
>>
> Did you look into the code in cpstrnew branch? I did.

And which changes are exactly the reason for your concerns?