[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing
Florian Klaempfl
florian at freepascal.org
Wed Sep 10 16:50:03 CEST 2008
listmember schrieb:
>>> But, I could write a gigantic data mining application, a database
>>> application
>>> or a myriad of such apps that uses the above class without doing a
>>> single
>>> pixel of GUI stuff.
>>
>> I'd like to see that: it will be guaranteed dog slow :(
>
> Hmm.. may be, maybe not.
>
> Last year I wrote a natural lang parser (Pascal) and gave the source to
> a Java developer of friend mine.
>
> It turned out to be faster in Java --classes and all. For some reason,
> using the same algorithm (my code converted to Java, basically), Java
> beat my natively compiled code. And, no there was no GUI involved.
Without detailed code one can say nothing about it. Just I/O being done
wrong can ruin performance.
>
> compiler guys all the same} and ask, instead, to give us
> reference-counted 4-byte (actually, preferably 6-bytes) per cell
> arrays/strings.
>
What's wrong with an dyn. array of DWord?
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