You are the expert but I am not sure how that can be the case given you only need to zero a register and blast that into the record location opposed to twice as many mov operations being generated that I have seen with the record that Gareth originally posted.
> On 19/04/2022 13:37 Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> > wrote: > > > Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Di., > 19. Apr. 2022, 12:38: > > If you want to zero small records more efficiently it might be better using > > Default(t) for that and looking at optimizing the code the compiler > > generates for that as it seems it produces an empty temp variable which it > > assigns instead of simply zeroing the record variable where default() is > > being assigned to. > > This was an explicit design choice I made, because it pays of as soon as a > second such assignment for the same type is made. > > Regards, > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
