[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 Sep 2011, at 13:57, Flávio Etrusco wrote:

> One obvious way to mitigate this would be to store the last
> CodePoint->Char in the string record, so that at least the most common
> case is covered.

... and so that the common case is broken in multithreaded environments.

Directly indexing a string will most likely always work using fixed-length steps (8, 16, 32 bit). If you want to iterate based on anything else (such as code points), use some kind of iterator model instead.


Jonas