On 17 Nov 2009, at 09:30, Micha Nelissen wrote: > Jonas Maebe wrote: >> On 17 Nov 2009, at 08:18, Vincent Snijders wrote: >>> If you look at CPU secs, then the factor is 3 at most. What helps the C++ >>> programs most is that they use 4 cores more, the fpc programs are mostly >>> singlethreaded. LLVM doesn't help to solve this (AFAIK). >> Anyway, the above is an example of what I mentioned earlier (in the quoted >> text at the top of this message), since it's of course perfectly possible to >> also write multi-threaded versions using FPC. > > Not quite, because things have to be part of the language to be able to use > them. GCC programs may use OpenMP since it is implemented using pragma's > which are "part" of the language. FPC would have to implement the 'parallel > for' ideas and friends for them to be used.
As far as I'm concerned, that's semantics. You're right that it matters for this game though :) Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
