Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-06 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Given it's licensed under the GNU GPL, I wonder if there's some optimisation paradigms that we can use from there as well, such as loop unrolling and the like. Kit On Wed 06/12/17 08:08 , Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk sent: > On 05/12/17 22:15, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > >

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 05/12/17 22:15, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Tue, December 5, 2017 21:50, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:> Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to> high-performance applications such as> games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite> important. I believe that

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, December 5, 2017 21:50, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to > high-performance applications such as > games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite > important. I believe that the feature request entry in Mantis

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
(Just bringing it up here because I've noticed that the feature ideas page doesn't tend to get many updates.) Okay, I've put forth two feature requests over here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas#FPC (I made a new "FPC" section because these are language features rather than

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to high-performance applications such as games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite important. Kit On Tue 05/12/17 17:34 , "J. Gareth Moreton" gar...@moreton-family.com sent: > Thanks for the answers

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Thanks for the answers everyone. I've added my suggestion near the bottom of the page. I wasn't sure because what I propose is a language feature, namely per-type byte alignment. Kit On Tue 05/12/17 13:05 , Bart bartjun...@gmail.com sent: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mark Morgan

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Bart
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > But please make sure that any wiki page is marked as being for the > discussion of a suggestion, and that it's deleted if not adopted. The wiki's > already got a maintenance problem with outmoded

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/12/17 21:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: Hi everyone,>> I have a little question to ask.  If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, > how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-04 Thread Bart
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > I have a little question to ask. If one wishes to request new features for a > future version of Free Pascal, > how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a > good idea or

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: Hi everyone, I have a little question to ask. If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a good idea or should be dropped, as well as any

[fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-04 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Hi everyone, I have a little question to ask. If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a good idea or should be dropped, as well as any cross-platform and language nuances that need