[fpc-devel] dominant short strings in compiler source

[peter green]

well it would have to have a different in memory format. Maybe a -1 based
array with the first two locations used for length would do it.

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> Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] dominant short strings in compiler source
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> By the way - was it ever possible in Delphi or FPC to define a
> very special short string
> to be of the length longer than 255, let's say
>
> string[1000]
>
> I remember that coming up once before on the mailing list but I
> forget the end result of
> the conversation.
> Not that this is the answer to all our the problems in this
> thread, though - I'm just
> curious.
>
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