Admittedly I have slightly selfish reasons for my proposed improvements. I like to play around with mathematical programming where loops can run for several days or weeks, so even the slimmest of savings adds up to a lot of saved time... and I love Object Pascal! Granted I can use assembly language for the most critical of code, something that 64-bit Visual C++ makes extremely difficult (plus there are always portability issues), but the more you can use a high-level language, the better.
Ideally, any mathematical function should be eligible for being pure, which is why I listed factorial as a goal. There will always be exceptions, of course, but that seems like a good benchmark. Gareth aka. Kit On Mon 09/07/18 15:39 , Ryan Joseph r...@thealchemistguild.com sent: > > > > > > On Jul 9, 2018, at 3:25 AM, Sven Barth via > fpc-devel wrote: > > > > > It would allow you to declare constants that use > those functions with the compiler evaluating them at compile time. > > > That’s a double win then. Very good idea this is. > > > > Regards, > > Ryan Joseph > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
