[fpc-devel] cpstrrtl/unicode branch merged to trunk

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/06/2013 01:54 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how efficient a RawByteString version ever can be. By 
> default it has to convert the string into Unicode (Delphi: UTF-16), 
> and the result back to CP_ACP. In these cases it looks more efficient 
> to call the Unicode version immediately, and leave *eventual* further 
> conversions to the compiler. Some routines may implement common 
> processing of true SBCS, but I'm not sure how many these are.
>

Of course I need to jump in here ...

While I don't exactly know what you are up to, you might want to read 
some recent posts of mine where I pointed out that using a fully 
dynamically encoding auto-converting String type (which does not seem to 
exist in Delphi) for Objects (and other things) that should not 
predefine a certain encoding in their interface (making the thingy 
useful for other Strings to avoid unnecessary (auto-) conversion)