Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-29 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Vincent Snijders wrote: Michalis Kamburelis wrote: I felt that results of this discussion are so important that I created a page in FPC wiki about it: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Avoiding_implicit_try_finally_section There's an URL to mail archives of this discussion, and a small

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Are there any other cases where this issue may be significant ? If no, I'll mark this wiki page clearly as only for FPC earlier than 2004-12-28 (to-be-removed when 2.0 comes in), else I will update it. (Note: we can continue this talk on wiki page

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-29 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Vincent Snijders wrote: Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Are there any other cases where this issue may be significant ? If no, I'll mark this wiki page clearly as only for FPC earlier than 2004-12-28 (to-be-removed when 2.0 comes in), else I will update it. (Note: we can continue this talk on wiki

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-29 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: I suspected that every type that needs to be initialized/finalized creates such try...finally block, Yes, it does. but didn't have time to check. But I checked it now. OK, page in wiki is changed, and demo program there is changed.

Re: Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-28 Thread Yakov Sudeikin
Talking about TList slowness: In the last years TList and TStringList became slower and slower. Are there any alternatives in classes.pp? A simple TList providing only the very basics, less checks, no notifications, less virtuals, reordered IFs ... ? I think dynamic arrays are just what you

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: I felt that results of this discussion are so important that I created a page in FPC wiki about it: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Avoiding_implicit_try_finally_section There's an URL to mail archives of this discussion, and a small demo program that shows

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:13:15 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: [...] And creates the implicit exception frame only in RaiseIndexError. I have changed

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Peter Vreman
I'm attaching a simple demo program that shows this. When compiled like fpc -OG -O2 -Op2 demo_resourcestring_slow.pas (to get maximum optimizations) sample output of it is Time of Foo_Normal: 16 Time of Foo_ResourceString: 106 So time difference is really noticeable.

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Hi, I tested your code and found that indeed version in ucopylist is slightly faster (by about 9.5 / 7 =~ 1.357). Two things: 1. Speedup is only 1.357x, not 3x, like you said. Are you sure that you're getting 3x speedup ? On what OS and

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Peter Vreman
This is because there is an extra (implicit) Try/Finally block. Thank you and Peter for answers. This way I was able to see how try...finally section looks in assembler :) Anyway, I understand that the answer is can't be speed up. OK, I can live with that. That is not correct. For your own

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Peter Vreman wrote: This is because there is an extra (implicit) Try/Finally block. Thank you and Peter for answers. This way I was able to see how try...finally section looks in assembler :) Anyway, I understand that the answer is can't be speed up. OK, I can live with that. That is not correct.

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Peter Vreman wrote: This is because there is an extra (implicit) Try/Finally block. Thank you and Peter for answers. This way I was able to see how try...finally section looks in assembler :) Anyway, I understand that the answer is can't be

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Ales Katona
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Hi, I tested your code and found that indeed version in ucopylist is slightly faster (by about 9.5 / 7 =~ 1.357). Two things: 1. Speedup is only 1.357x, not 3x, like you said. Are you sure that you're getting 3x speedup ? On what OS and with what FPC version are you

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:56:24 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the answer is yes, then maybe it's safe to compile parts of FPC sources in lists.inc (like TList.Get) inside {$IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS OFF} ? Why not put it into a sub proc: function

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:56:24 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the answer is yes, then maybe it's safe to compile parts of FPC sources in lists.inc (like TList.Get) inside {$IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:56:24 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the answer is yes, then maybe it's safe to compile parts of FPC sources in lists.inc (like TList.Get) inside

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:49:10 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:56:24 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the answer is yes,

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:49:10 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:56:24 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt

Re: [fpc-devel] TList slowness in classes

2004-12-23 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Hi, I tested your code and found that indeed version in ucopylist is slightly faster (by about 9.5 / 7 =~ 1.357). Two things: 1. Speedup is only 1.357x, not 3x, like you said. Are you sure that you're getting 3x speedup ? On what OS and with what FPC version are you testing this ? I was doing