[fpc-devel] Macro Processing

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 14 May 2011, schreef Marco van de Voort:

>> 2) This is the solution? Making the compiler to store somewhere a
>> string representation in my object file and then give it back to me if
>> I request it by str(enumerate)??? Thats so completely ... overhead,
>
> Not really, if the RTTI is too slow for you, simply generate the array once
> on startup.  (disclaimer I actually never have tested RTTI speed)

It ain't slow at all. I think it beats many quick and dirty manual 
conversion solutions in speed and/or memory consumption. Maybe if you use 
it in an inner loop you may want your own code.

Daniël