cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:01:51 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
> Martin Schreiber escreveu:
> > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 18:33:54 Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> >>> Did you look into the code in cpstrnew branch? I did.
> >>
> >> And which changes are exactly the reason for your concerns?
> >
> > More checks and more complicated address calculation. OK, you can say
> > "you will not notice the small difference". But possible this attitude is
> > one of the reasons that Delphi compiles much faster than FPC? ;-)
>
> Hey, aren't you that is saying to not follow Delphi?
>
Hmm, Delphi 7 to be precise, I don't know the newer versions.
And I don't say "don't follow Delphi" I say "don't drop the ideal string type 
for MSEgui".

Martin