[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Thaddy said:
> > It is. Widestring always worked more or less, on both FPC,Kylix and Delphi.
> > But the COM backed versions (FPC2.2+ (?) and Delphi) suffered from
> > performance problems
> As I wrote it should be opaque ( = transparent, btw).
> At least for windows I overcame most of the problems that widestring is 
> using COM by writing a simple COM Delphi memorymanager replacement years 
> ago in pre-userspace. Thus all reference counting (at least at block 
> level, but also for delphi strings) is managed by COM. It is still 
> available at my website. And yes, it is rather slow. But string 
> manipulation is slow anyway.

The slow was already relative to the non-COM kylix widestring handling.