Memory Managers and String Building

synscalemm[This is a guest post, written by Primož Gabrijelčičwww.thedelphigeek.com]

One thing interested me since I started reading Eric’s series on string concatenation performance – how would different memory managers compare in a multi-threaded scenario. Today I decided to spend an hour finding out…

edit 18/11: the tests were run with debug mode, which affected TTextWriter very negatively (TWOBS is also affected a negatively, but less, and StringBuilder and Trivial aren’t affected much).  I’ll be repeating tests with more memory managers and in more stable conditions in the next few weeks.

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