Op Thu, 18 May 2006, schreef Flávio Etrusco:
L Dynamic arrays can be very handy and I never knew anyone who avoids
L them. Of course if your array has fixed length there's no reason
L to use a dynamic array either.
L Fortunately it's no very often that one falls in Borland's trap
L
On 5/19/06, Daniël Mantione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Op Thu, 18 May 2006, schreef Flávio Etrusco:
L Dynamic arrays can be very handy and I never knew anyone who avoids
L them. Of course if your array has fixed length there's no reason
L to use a dynamic array either.
L Fortunately
Op Fri, 19 May 2006, schreef Flávio Etrusco:
Free Pascal is Delphi compatible.
I know that FPC aims to be Delphi-compatible, but it's not always the
case, as e.g. the WideStrings were reference-counted until a couple of
months ago.
So you are saying that in this is specific case FPC is
L Can someone tell me how slow/fast a dynamic array is compared to a fixed
one? Say you used
L a dynamic array of chars or dynamic array of shortstrings - would the
dynamic array be
L slow on a general basis? Maybe we will have to resort to benchmarks using
the cpu timer.
L And then there is
But it's only a matter of time:
probably Windows will become totally utf16 (not really unicode, but
at least utf16) really soon (at least in newer versions in a way
incompatible with current ones).
A small correction, utf16 is a type of unicode.
thanks,
--
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 5/18/06, Пётр Косаревский с mail.ru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L Can someone tell me how slow/fast a dynamic array is compared to a fixed
one? Say you used
L a dynamic array of chars or dynamic array of shortstrings - would the
dynamic array be
L slow on a general basis? Maybe we will have to