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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.02.2019 18:12, J. Gareth Moreton
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compiler isn't a valid case because the input source is
different (because of the very changes made to said compiler).
It needs to be a project that doesn't share anything with the
compiler (except the run-time libraries), so the source code is
exactly the same so that when it is built, it runs the same no
matter which version of the compiler it was built with.</div>
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<div>I'm viewing it as a bit of a scientific experiment, where
only a single variable is changed, namely the compiler used.
The compiled program should produce exactly the same output and
otherwise behave the same way, so that any time metrics reflect
only how long it takes to complete and hence is reflective only
of the quality of the machine code, not what the program is
doing... if that makes any sense.<br>
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Gareth aka. Kit</blockquote>
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<p>Build Lazarus?</p>
<p>Ondrej<br>
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