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 trick proposed by Mattias how to avoid this implicit try...finally block.
(I also created Writing_efficient_code page, that links between FPC page and Avoiding_implicit_try_finally_section page).
Michalis.
Did you try this with today compiler?
I think Peter Vreman turned of implicit try finally for resource strings.
Vincent.
I just updated from CVS and rebuild FPC, and indeed, timings of my test program are now
Time of Foo_ResourceString: 18
Time of Foo_ResourceString_Faster: 16
So it's fixed in compiler. Great!
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 http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Avoiding_implicit_try_finally_section already started by Vincent with that question)
Thanks! -- Michalis
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