[fpc-devel] Problem with Now() and time changed by ntpd

[Martin Schreiber]

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 17.46:07 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Martin Schreiber wrote on Wed, 02 Nov 2011:
> > On Wednesday 02 November 2011 17.13:49 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >> Just like all UTF-16 code in
> >> the RTL is slower than what Martin Schreiber would like, and we didn't
> >> change it to UCS-2 when he asked to do so for speed reasons.
> > 
> > ???
> > I never asked this.
> 
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10462 :) ("Please take into
> account that this functions are called very often for sorting strings,
> optimal performance is essential. I am not sure if the correct
> handling of surrogate pairs, which probably not many FPC users really
> need, is worth the loss on performance.")
> 
:-)
Now this is long time ago...
And the emphasis is on performance of string comparing and sorting which still 
is very bad on Linux.

Martin