[fpc-devel] Performance of string handling in trunk

Thaddy thaddy at thaddy.com
Mon Jun 24 17:19:24 CEST 2013


On 24-6-2013 17:13, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 04:44 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>
>> Not in Delphi. For binary data TBytes has been added.
> Which (AFAIK) is not reference counting can't do "+" and thus much 
> less versatile.

It is also highly controversial since XE4:

For example a good breakdown in 
http://blog.synopse.info/post/2013/05/11/Delphi-XE4-NextGen-compiler-is-disapointing

This is by no means the only complaint about the latest "string" 
whatever it is supposed to be..... ;)

Thaddy



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