[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 21 August 2012 13:03, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
>> With "not so often" I meant program runtime:  it is usually not called in a
>> close long running loop.
> 
> I have a program that does exactly that... Loads files to do CRC
> checking to see what changed. It's a recursive find-all that goes
> through 100k or more files. It's already a slow process on non-SSD
> drives processing 12GB or more of data, so adding the multiple
> unnecessary string conversions which will be enforced on Linux users
> would make that even worse.

IMO string conversion and CRC are mutually exclusive.

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