[fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So has anybody actually done a timing comparision? Do you have your
> test code available? Do you have your results published? I'm
> interested to see the timing results using different hardware.


What I'm getting at, is that if FPC implements a UnicodeString based
on UTF-16, compared to UTF-8. It would be nice to base that decision
on educated research and not just a hunch that UTF-16 will be faster
on 1 of the 11 officially supported platforms.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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