[fpc-devel] Small Wstrings problem

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 27 June 2005 13.53, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> That won't like people who count on delphi compatibility. Maybe we should
> make the widestring heap allocation through the widestring manager so
> heaptrace can hook it.

Then the other way around, a new widestring which is reference counted
on all platforms for people like, me who count on cross platform 
portability. So i can write

type 
 {$ifdef FPC}
 mywidestring  = FPCwidestring;
{$else}
 mywidestring = widestring;
{$endif}

and exchange 'widestring' by 'mywidestring' 10'000 times...
In most times i use widestrings and not ansistrings and i estimate
the performance gain of the FPC widestrings over the not reference
counted delphi strings.