On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Simon Kissel wrote:
exact same unit testing test suite using FPC 2.6.0 and Delphi 7. Running
those tests, again on the same system, the Delphi executable completes
the 180 tests in 2 seconds. The FPC binary took 18 seconds for the same
180 tests!!!
From our measures the Delphi and Kylix compilers in most cases
on x86 produces code that is about in the order of 50% faster than FPC.
You mentioned that you would like to contribute to FPC.
Maybe this is an area where you can contribute: more aggressive optimizations.
Michael.
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