On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:15:16 -0600 Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote: > 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? Yes. Mattias