[fpc-pascal] FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH dog slow

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 07/03/2018 01:44 PM, leledumbo via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> i think i'm still waiting for the string "length byte" becoming a "length 
>> word" or possibly a "length long" so the speed of pascal strings can be
>> reacquired -=B-) >
> Ansi and any other dynamic strings already have length longint that allows 
> 2GB string length with O(1) length retrieval.

excellent... i've been confused by all the various string changes that have been 
made in the recent years since i joined the lists... the UTF stuff really spun 
my head around with all the various discussions and arguments... i'm still not 
sure i understand it... i don't need UTF but i hope that my newer programs are 
written properly to handle UTF if it ever comes up... they're generally console 
applications reading textual data from elsewhere and processing for local output...


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