On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > True. > Although these points are valid for both formats: lfm and pascal. > > I think the advantages of the lfm format are: > - the format is very simple, everyone immediately knows what it does > and how to edit it. AFAIK the only questions about its format were > about encoding of strings. > - they are stored compressed in the executable > - allows to hook into the string reading, so that translations can be > loaded automatically while reading > > I think the important point for the "stream pascal" is that it makes it > possible to run without the streaming code, so smart linking > could produce smaller executables.
Okay, that I didn't know... pros and cons for each design. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
