[Lazarus] dynamic string proposal

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Thu Aug 17 11:10:54 CEST 2017


Maybe, Sven could answer to this mail in the other thread...

On 14.08.2017 18:47, Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote:
>
> The main problem of such a dynamic type would be the inability to do 
> fast indexing as the compiler would need to insert runtime checks for 
> the size of a character.
>
What "indexing" do you think of ?
Could you give an example where such a difference is supposed to get 
important ?

(As you know I wrote a paper where I claimed the contrary. I'd like to 
revise same if necessary.)

-Michael
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