In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > > Interfaces are relatively slow. Not only because of the refcounting, but > > returning interfaces in a tight loop (e.g. to get the elements of an > > enumeration) would be a new allocation each time. > > Note: the enumerator of a for-in is only fetched once before the loop, so > it does not really matter whether it's an interface or record as long as > the elements themselves aren't on demand allocated interfaces.
The trouble is that you then have to avoid for-in for many potentially small iterations as in the hash case. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
