On 2017-05-29 12:24, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Jonas told that the benchmark program contains a number of bugs/wrong
translation from the C code:
And all of those recommendations were applied by Jon Foster and yielded
only a 0.6% increase in speed.
"I ended up with an hour of extra time so I went over Jonas' suggestions
again. I made tweaks fixing integer types, using trunc() instead of
round, ... The over all improvement is only +0.6%, as I predicted
nowhere near the 10x+ needed to compete with the other languages."
-- Jon Foster (in the MSEide+MSEgui mailing list dated 2017-05-24)
So the major speed problem still seems to be the FPC optimisation with
looping and not using SSEx when it is available.
I personally haven't tested with the latest FPC 3.1.1 yet.
Regards,
Graeme
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