Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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Also it would be nice (so I do not know how) not to have to
duplicate code, in order to archive this. Something like generics,
maybe.
The goal of RTLString is to avoid duplicate code in the RTL.
Yes I acknowledged that this would be a problem. And also RTLString
has the benefit, of allowing unicode fpc to be available far earlier
than it would otherwise.
The question remains, could it then be extended/optimized? Maybe a
generic like template (for functions, instead of objects)? Which
needs to be written only once, and the will be specialized for each
string type?
Yes.
I wonder, how many are there that really need this?
Can you estimate?
You mean how many rttl functions would benefit. I do not know. But I do
think it's the wrong question.
In order to do it you would want something like function-templates
(generics equivalent for functions).
I do not believe such a template system would be developped for the sole
purpose of doing the above rtl work.
If however such a template system would be implemented anyway (because
it would benefit everyone in the same way generics do (actually I never
checked: can generics do simple functions or only classes?)), so if it
was there, then why not use it for the rtl too? In such a scenario does
it matter if you optimize 5 or 5000 functions?
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