[fpc-pascal] FPC now 3rd in shootout

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 5 Nov 2007, schreef S. Fisher:

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> --- Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> > around. I have update the program to use a pchar instead of an ansistri=
ng
> > so it finishes within
> > reasonable time. The updated source can be found in:
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> >
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk/tests/bench/shootout/src/regexdna=
.pp
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> > But the code is a lot slower than gcc so there is still a lot of
> > performance tuning to do:
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> >                100000  300000  500000
> > fpascal          1.169   4.581  11.754
> > gcc-2            1.033   3.078   5.111
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> Is it true that a slow program has a worse effect on the shootout
> results than a missing program?  That seems wrong to me.

There has been a long discussion on the Shootout forums about it. Isaac =

believes that it is more fair this way for languages that don't have all =

benchmarks implemented. Now we simply have to make him retract all our =

poor performing programs :)

Dani=EBl