[fpc-pascal] Not specifying the {$H+} degrades performance
Jonas Maebe
jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Mon Mar 26 12:58:17 CEST 2007
On 26 mrt 2007, at 12:54, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> If I have a .pas unit and forgot to specify the compiler mode line
> {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
> what does FPC default to? Compiler Mode? Longstring or Shortstring?
Shortstring. {$h+} is not longstring, but ansistring.
> After some more testing I realized it is the {$H+} that gave me the
> performance boost. What does FPC default to? Why not default to {$H+}
> ?
Backwards compatibility. There are also many situations where
ansistrings are slower than shortstrings.
Jonas
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