> >That is why I use pchar and one uniquestring; > >It prevents all these automated uniquestring calls. > > Why call it when it might not be necessary?? > > My point is that you can make the function MUCH faster for the case > where the function doesn't modify the string by not calling > UniqueString at all.
If I understood well, with modern processor an unpredicatable branch (i.e. one with similar probability) is much more time-consuming that an unnecessary function call. Bye Uberto ps. is there a way to see the assembly producted by a FPC function? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
