On 13-1-2011 21:40, Sven Barth wrote:
WideString on Windows has no reference counting, thus everytime a
WideString is assigned it needs to be copied.
Not exactly true. widestring is com marshaled and thus has reference
counting on the com level. afaik .
As long as your memorymanager is com marshaled too, that is. And since
most pascal memory manager versions do not support com directly, it goes
wrong in a big way.
I once wrote a simple com memory manager to test this. Performance stays
sh*t, but strings seem to be counted, not copied.
If you use coTaskMemAlloc, coTaskMemFree,CoTaskMemRealloc in your
memory manager you will see what I mean.
At least it comes close, but slow it will stay.
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