[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Dynamic array extensions

[Ryan Joseph]

> On May 25, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing you are not using strings either then, for performance reasons ? Because exactly the same happens there.

really? I had a collection class with a dynamic array for the storage and that’s when I got the high CPU usage in the thread safe stuff. I replaced the storage with a pointer to a block of memory which I managed myself and the problem went away. I just wanted to a dynamic array that was fast, minimal and could append elements.

I use lots of strings but I never had that problem. Are strings reference counted like dynamic arrays? I thought a string was just an array of 255 chars.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph