[fpc-pascal] FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH dog slow

Ryan Joseph ryan at thealchemistguild.com
Tue Jul 3 17:15:16 CEST 2018

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I was just parsing something and found that a call to length on a pchar was taking 90+% of the time in FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH.

Why is that so crazy slow? Does it need to iterate the entire length of the string to know it’s length?

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	Ryan Joseph

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