[fpc-pascal] Benchmarks for Free Pascal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently come across some good websites about benchmarks and Free
> Pascal is definitevely one of the best compilers in CPU time and
> Memory Use on batteries of problems.

That's a known page, Ales Katona works on improving the results.

> 
> On Linux:
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> "How can we benchmark a programming language?
> We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations.
> 
> How can we benchmark language implementations?
> We can't - we measure particular programs."
> 
> Free Pascal vs C#:
> 
> Mono is ~15 times worse in memory use and execution speed.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=fpascal&lang2=csharp&sort=fullcpu
> 
> Free Pascal vs Java JDK: FPC wins by large =P
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=fpascal&lang2=java&sort=fullcpu
> 
> Free Pascal vs C: GCC is the only compiler to beat FPC, and for a small margin.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=fpascal&lang2=gcc&sort=fullcpu
> 
> On Windows:
> 
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/

That's outdated (FPC 1.0.4).

> 
> Delphi comes even with Visual Studio c and c++ on the first place.
> After, with a margin, comes gcc and free pascal. C#, Java, perl,
> python, all come much after free pascal. Visual Basic is perhaps the
> worse.
> 
> It is obvious that all benchmarks are flawed (as even the benchmark
> website says), but it is lot's of fun ^_^
> 
> --
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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