Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mattias Gaertner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:05:43 +0200
For example the lazarus IDE typically holds 50 to 200mb sources in
memory. If this would be changed to unicodestring (2 byte per char) then
the IDE would need 50 to 200mb more memory.
Ah, and that would probably explain why Martin decided not to
pre-parse units in MSEide - for things like code complection etc...
MSEide's memory usage would balloon greatly, compared to Lazarus.
One can always choose the string type which is most appropriate for the
given task. For storing Pascal (or whatever) sources, one choice is not
to use plaintext at all, but replace each identifier with its index in a
dictionary. It depends on the task.
Regards,
Sergei
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