Re: [fpc-other] Interpreter speed

2023-04-29 Thread Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-other
Am 29.04.2023 um 19:48 schrieb geneb via fpc-other: On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-other wrote: This may be slightly off-topic, but I can tell you some facts about my Stanford Pascal compiler, which runs - native on z Mainframe machines (which may count as a RISC machine,

Re: [fpc-other] Interpreter speed

2023-04-29 Thread geneb via fpc-other
On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-other wrote: This may be slightly off-topic, but I can tell you some facts about my Stanford Pascal compiler, which runs - native on z Mainframe machines (which may count as a RISC machine, given the instruction set used) - emulated by Hercules,

Re: [fpc-other] Interpreter speed

2023-04-29 Thread Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-other
On the same machine: PASCAL1 compiled with Stanford Pascal, running on the Hercules emulator: pp pascal1 EXEC PASCAL PASCAL1 STATE PASCAL1 PASCAL A EXEC PASCOMP PASCAL1    STANFORD PASCAL COMPILER, OPPOLZER VERSION OF 2023.03    Compiler Summary      No Errors, no

Re: [fpc-other] Interpreter speed

2023-04-29 Thread Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-other
This may be slightly off-topic, but I can tell you some facts about my Stanford Pascal compiler, which runs - native on z Mainframe machines (which may count as a RISC machine, given the instruction set used) - emulated by Hercules, which is a emulator of z Mainframes - by emulating P-Code,

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
Hello everybody, Please, note that this thread (already very long) will become moderated now and no further posts will be let through unless I or some other list moderator believe that there"s a very good reason for it. Thanks for your understanding Tomas (one of FPC mailing list moderators)

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Jonas Maebe via fpc-other
On 29/04/2023 12:24, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: I find it very odd the way you write above, and that you insist on defending Nikolay/Joanna. Nikolay is a member of the FPC core team. As a result, we know him fairly well. He really is not Joanna. Jonas

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Jacob Kroon via fpc-other
Hi Tomas, On 4/29/23 08:33, Tomas Hajny wrote: On 29 April 2023 0:05:53 +0200, Jacob Kroon wrote: On 4/28/23 23:49, Tomas Hajny via fpc-other wrote: Hi Jacob, responding just privately this time... ^^^ I think that is an odd decision; for transparency I think its better to have the

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-other
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other said on Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:40:03 +0300 >On 4/29/23 09:02, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: >1.5) In 2020, Freenode's #fpc channel was being ruined by a troll, who >was flooding the channel with crap, offtopic links and misinformation >about Pascal and would hijack

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Johannes Truschnigg via fpc-other
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:49:06PM +, HSN via fpc-other wrote: > [...] > Now that they have for the time being given up on the goal of hijacking > #fpc, it seems to be just the colo account in there saying things to make > Lazarus ide look like it has problems. > [...] I would appreciate you

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/29/23 09:02, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other said on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:39:04 +0300 Maybe #fpc-alt will become a better unofficial IRC channel? So far, I've joined the #fpc-alt channel (without leaving #fpc), to support an alternative channel as well, but

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread James Richters via fpc-other
Jacob, First let me say that I am someone who has been in your position, I have some applications that I wrote in Turbo Pascal for DOS that I wanted to get working on a modern PC, and I came across FreePascal. Many times things just don't work the way they used to and I needed quite a bit of

[fpc-other] Interpreter speed

2023-04-29 Thread Adriaan van Os via fpc-other
Out of curiosity — has anybody compared the speed of 1. interpreting a parsed syntax tree, versus 2. interpreting byte code, versus 3. interpreting a RISC CPU ? Regards, Adriaan van Os ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-other
Jacob Kroon via fpc-other said on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:31:02 +0200 >No, this is what it looks like to me, you are "Joanna". > >But I encourage everyone else to make their own conclusion given the >information provided. > >Jacob Come join us on #fpc-alt and ##fpc-alt. You'll be striking a blow

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-other
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other said on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:39:04 +0300 >Maybe #fpc-alt will become a better unofficial IRC channel? So far, >I've joined the #fpc-alt channel (without leaving #fpc), to support an >alternative channel as well, but I'm not very impressed, not only due >to the lack