[fpc-pascal] Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi 7?

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 08.12.2011 08:25, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
> <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Fully agree. Especially, because ex Delphi (and ex Turbo Pascal) users would
>> expect it like that. And most of them (coming from Delphi/TP) believe that
>> the randomness is not very reliable. They mainly don't even know (like me)
>> that the FPC random() is much more sophisticated.
> 
> Based on what they expect that?

In this border case they expect delphi compatibility because it effects
their code and not others.