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

[Michael Schnell]

Martin Schreiber wrote:
> Did you look into the code in cpstrnew branch? 

Not yet (sitting behind a firewall I had major problems with using the
revision control system. I do use GIT for other projects so I'll recheck
some day soon.)

> I did.

So you do suggest that this code is not optimized on that behalf. Of
course this is a work in progress right now. Nonetheless I am sure that
when decently done D2009 Strings are not doomed to work much slower than
  ref counted WideStrings, if all  Strings to be managed are denoted as
type "unencoded 16 Bit" or similar (maybe encoding type still needs to
invented for Widestring compatibility).

-Michael