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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>There is indeed a QString overload for concatenating QLatin1String, but it will have to be converted char-by-char (from 8 bits to 16 bits), so isn't it faster to concatenate QStringLiterals?</p></div>
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<p>I have never seen numbers, but any time I asked someone who might have seen numbers, they told me: QStringLiteral only for final strings not further modified or given to operations. Sadly cannot find references now, but I asked often the recent years.<br />
Looking at the code, the <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">qt_from_latin1</tt> helper method might be as efficient on most processors as the <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">memcpy</tt> is perhaps, and making up for any other overhead the QStringLiteral-generated code has, perhaps atomic stuff around the generated QString instance is expensive compared to the copy logic?</p>
<p>But ready to hear from real Qt experts once more, perhaps with numbers this time :)</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R237 KConfig</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D26868">https://phabricator.kde.org/D26868</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>tcanabrava, ervin, dfaure<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>kossebau, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns<br /></div>