[fpc-devel] Performance of string handling in trunk

[Sven Barth]

Am 26.06.2013 18:30 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>:
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> Michael Schnell schrieb:
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>> On 06/26/2013 03:44 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>>> There never is a conversion when assigning to/from rawbytestring,
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>> So what do you suggest should happen when assigning a RawByteString to a
normal String ? The result could be a strange thing that is encoded other
than the type requires. To me this behavior is a quirk go and should not be
capt just for compatibility. .
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> Then you have two choices:
> 1) convert the string as required
> 2) copy the content unconverted, but update the encoding
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> IMO a reasonable decision should take into account the use of the
RawByteString type in RTL code, e.g. for concatenation.

The RTL already uses RawByteString for the concatenation helpers.

Regards,
Sven
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