[fpc-devel] Performance of string handling in trunk

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/24/2013 12:43 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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> This should be clear since a long time.

Sorry, but e.g. I don't know the "official" names of the Delphi 7 
compatible "String" and the Delphi XE compatible "String" in fpc/Lazarus.

I suppose in DXE the Delphi 7 compatible String is not available at all, 
while I suppose in fpc this String type will still be available when 
setting appropriate compiler options.

I do now that that the Delphi 7 compatible String in fpc sometimes has 
been called ANSIString, while Lazarus funnily stores UTF8 in the type 
ANSIString, even in spite of the naming.

I seem to have read that in Delphi XE the strings also are called 
ANSIString, even if they work differently from what (the currently 
released) fpc call with that name.

So a decent grid would be very helpful.

-Michael