On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: >> MSElang and MSEpas (a subset of Free Pascal) have "string8" (utf-8) >> "string16" >> (utf-16) "string32" (ucs-4) > > That sounds good.
Why? Is not it better to just use a single String type (as a class or not) as you've said? >> ... > > Huh? Java is an excellent performance language. Please ignore all statements > on the Internet older than say 5 years. The Java language has come a long > way, and > is *very* fast now. In fact, it actually generates binary code that is > magnitudes faster than what FPC can achieve. I've recently proved this in > the Lazarus Forum, and no amounts of "tweaks" or obscure coding methods in > Object Pascal or FPC compiler options could come close to the performance I > saw in Java 8. ...and because that and others, we start to think if Pascal will died soon or if we will use Pascal to make bytecode to Java. :| Marcos Douglas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
