[fpc-devel] PShortString

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 10 Sep 2010, schreef Hans-Peter Diettrich:

> Sergei Gorelkin schrieb:
>
>>> When dynamic strings are used all around, is the use of pointers to 
>>> ShortString still recommended? (fmodule contains a lot of them)
>>> 
>> Whenever you care about performance, you'll quickly realize that dynamic 
>> strings are plain inappropriate.
>
> The concrete use of PShortString strings is inappropriate in your sense, 
> because it results in allocation, copy and deallocation of temporary strings 
> in the code, in many places. This behaviour gave birth to my question.

Ansistrings result allocation copy and deallocation during *processing*. 
The use of ansistrings would make the compiler at least twice as slow and 
quadruple its memory consumption.

Daniël