[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/11/2011 11:28 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> Excessive use of RawByteString is at least as inefficient as using 
> Variant for everything :-(
>

While I still doubt that (only) RawByteString is a type that is to be 
used for dynamical encoding....

That is correct, depending on what excessive means in a practical case.

If the encoding is the same in the flow of the complete program, only 
the checking of the code ID is necessary and this does not impose 
considerable speed degradation. If you deal with multiple encoding at 
the same time in an unthoughtful  way, a speed disaster is bound to happen.

-Michael