I'm still slightly curious, but if full optimisations make better code,
then indeed it's probably not worth the effort.
Your timings are incredibly helpful - thank you! If I understand, AMD
A9 is the Excavator architecture, which implies that AMD processors
don't suffer from the same latency
On 2023-10-07 18:09, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
That's interesting; I am interested to see the assembly output for the
Pascal control cases. As for the 64-bit version, that was my fault
since the assembly language is for Microsoft's ABI rather than the
System V ABI, so it was
That's interesting; I am interested to see the assembly output for the
Pascal control cases. As for the 64-bit version, that was my fault
since the assembly language is for Microsoft's ABI rather than the
System V ABI, so it was checking a register with an undefined value.
Find attached the
On 2023-10-07 03:57, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
Hi Kit,
Do you think this should suffice? Originally it ran for 1,000,000
repetitions but I fear that will take way too long on a 486, so I
reduced it to 10,000.
OK, I tried it now. First of all, after turning on the old machine, I
On 10/6/23 16:11, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
OPT= always to my best knowledge
NEWOPT is opt only for later cycles and the rest, iow not for the first
FPC bootstrap cycle (that might be started with an older compiler
version). So it is for additional options that are not
