Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:41:41 -0300
Flávio Etrusco <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Juha Manninen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I raised a bit of interest elsewhere by comparing Delphi and FPC code
generation. Delphi is still stuck on i386 and doesn't know about SSE
etc., so it's arguable whether FPC by default needs to do better.
Of course it needs!
Delphi is not the ultimate maximum perfection out there. I think GCC is a
better target when competing about code generation features.
Juha
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But gcc users aren't the target audience of FPC...
Yes, they are.
When talking about produced code, FPC is in the same league. Delphi is
nothing in HPC.
I was trying to keep my phrasing neutral, but I think there are a couple
of significant points. The first is that gcc is generally bundled with
an OS distribution, if the OS can't run on <686 then it's obviously safe
to make the compiler assume >=686 as well. Hence FPC bundled with a
distro might also be different from the generic binary snapshot.
The second is that user expectations of FPC and Lazarus might differ:
somebody using a command-line compiler on an older system might tolerate
being told that he has to go back to 2.0.0 and run make a couple of
times, but somebody who simply wants a competent RAD IDE might not.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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