[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Vittorio Giovara]

On 04/mar/2013, at 15:02, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
wrote:

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:50:17 +0100

Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:


Any idea, why FPC Linux is slower than FPC Windows?

Loading and highlighting does not sound like a task where many OS calls

are involved.


Codepage conversions, most likely: Martin uses UTF-16 everywhere.
On Windows, FPC uses the native support for UTF-16.
Not exactly sure what happens on Linux.

Slightly off topic: http://www.utf8everywhere.org/
Seriously, drop UTF16 support NOW.

Vittorio
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