FastStrings package

[CharlyTango]

Hi Folks,

As an old Delphi programmer Lazarus looks very nice but what I'm lacking is the support of my well known component-libraries and packages.

One of them which i heavyly used ist FastStrings/FastStringFuncs which provides me a massive speed boost with string manipulation or search and replace in larger strings (namely html sources).

For test purposes I included FastStrings.pas into an empty project and compiled it.

..and found out that i have to mark the inline assembler sections with

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{$ASMMODE intel}
asm
But afterwards i ran into the next problem -- at the Line

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lea     ESI, ESI + 1
the compiler threw an error:
C:\Source\_shared\FastStrings.pas(294,26) Error: Invalid operand type

Regrettably I'm no assembler crack :-(

My questions are:

1) Has anyone ported the FastStrings/FastStringsFuncs to Lazarus?

2) Is there a similar Package for superfast string manipulation ?

3) or are such fast string functions already implemented in FPC and additional packages are not necessary any more?

Regards,
Karl

[marcov]

Probably, you can replace it by "inc esi". or lea esi, [esi+1] or something, probably depends on context.

Note that faststrings is partially so fast because it simply skips a lot of stuff. (like supporting internationalization and MBCS), and in general very uncleanly programmed.

[CharlyTango]

Thanks for your answer!

But... whick package shall i use? Do you know any Package which focuses on superfast string handling and is programmed cleanly ?

Regards

[marcov]

But... whick package shall i use? Do you know any Package which focuses on superfast string handling and is programmed cleanly ?

It is called the "RTL" :-)

[Graeme]

It is called the "RTL" :-)