[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-05-22 23:39, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> What about Rust or plain C? Or Digital Mars D?

I hate C with a passion. I'll never code in that ever again.

I also have no interest in learning "the new language flavour of the 
month" - which will be obsolete in a year or two. Object Pascal is 
already pretty irrelevant when it comes to looking for jobs - I'm a 
freelancer / contract programmer. Though it has served me very well 
since TP 5.5 and then again from Delphi 4 onwards.

I now go where the work is (as well as the money - but enjoyment of work 
is still a higher priority for me).


> Or instead of using rust/c/java, simply fix FPC, which is a good
> solution IMO

I don't know compiler design or how it works internally. So contributing 
in that area is out of my scope.


> I don't see how ZenGL and Andorra3D have been able to succeed as game
> engines

I can't speak for those, but have used OpenGL with FPC for a few months. 
I'm definitely no OpenGL expert, but I did manage to off-loaded a lot of 
work via shaders to the GPU. So that frees up a lot of what FPC has to 
do with the general game "ticks".


> Indeed it is not exactly a bug but could just be correct code that is
> slow.

Many seem to miss the whole point of what I was trying to say. Other 
compilers did a much better job than what FPC could manage - using the 
exact same code (just the language syntax that differed). I didn't need 
to change anything for GCC or Java, and I didn't have to implement all 
kinds of work-arounds.

Either way, I've run out of energy discussing this. I profile my code 
one more time and try the suggestions in Jonas. Simply because I'm 
curious. But other than that, my project has already moved forward using 
Java.


Regards,
   Graeme

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