[fpc-pascal] Re: AnsiString (Luis Fernando Del Aguila Mej?a) (Jonas Maebe)

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Luis Fernando Del Aguila Mejía schrieb:
 >  My intention is to understand the inner workings of the compiler

I agree with you that such knowledge is imponderably useful.
Any help information should explain this in detail. Then
you can predict much easier what happens in the background
and decide what kind of data types have what advantages/drawbacks.

But if higher level functions (like Length) exist that can be used
without any performance penalty (and even if it makes the program
a *little* bit slower) it is wise to use them. Any changes that are
done "under the hood" later will not harm your program.