[Lazarus] How to use strings properly with fixes_1_6 and FPC 3.0.0?
Jürgen Hestermann
juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Fri Oct 21 16:08:32 CEST 2016
Am 2016-10-21 um 14:59 schrieb Juha Manninen via Lazarus:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Gabor Boros via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> Why the below example better than a for loop with UTF8Length and UTF8Copy
>> for go through the string?
> Because it is MUCH faster. It scales linearly, O(n).
> Calling UTF8Length() and UTF8Copy() inside the loop makes it
> polynomial O(n^2) or worse depending on how many UTF8...() calls you
> have there.
And again we are at the point where you need to understand what goes on under the hood... ;-)
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