AnsiLowerCase() faster than LowerCase()

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When I tried to speed up SourceCoder, I looked at frequent calls to AnsiLowerCase().
I had made it a habit to use AnsiLowerCase() instead of LowerCase() because I remembered that it would treat non-standard characters properly (e.g. German Umlaute ä => Ä).
The help file shows that it even handles multibyte character sets (MBCS) properly.

The plain LowerCase() does nothing of that and I assumed it might be faster.

This was not the case. The reason is that LowerCase() is implemented in Pascal (in SysUtils.pas), while AnsiLowerCase() calls a Win32 API function using #0 terminated strings.

Indeed, by changing all calls from AnsiLowerCase() to LowerCase(), SourceCoder became about 15% slower (no benchmark was needed, it was very obvious!), so I quickly changed back.

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2007-02-20, 16:20:25

anonymous

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