> On 25 feb 2005, at 15:49, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > - Critical parts are often handoptimized by using a lot of non GCed > > types > > (like int), this is not a typical programming method for these > > languages, but outright expert tuning. > > Critical paths are also optimized in our compiler to not use > ansistrings, because reference counting is also slow.
And I was talking more specific about the Quake II benchmark that was brought. Any tweaks would already be on top of the existing ones in the code. > The argument is not about whether or not we should make Pascal entirely > GC'd, but about whether reference counting is better/worse than other > garbage collection techniques if you have a significant amount of GC'd > objects. The Quake II benchmark was used to "prove" that full blown (I assume Boehm) GC was not slow. Q II, as tuned app, is probably already using primitive types heavily, thus not a poster child for this benchamark _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
