[fpc-devel] type discussion

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Ales Katona wrote:

> 
> > 
> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=fpascal&lang2=ocaml&sort=fullcpu 
> > 
> > 
> > Here comes Pascal (FPC) vs Ocaml (hybrid functional/imperative language
> > with OO). Ocaml is significantly faster although it havily uses GC. Ocaml
> > code is significantly shorter too (they can be coded in significanly
> > lesser amount of lines).
> > 
> > rgds
> 
> Those tests are flawed. I just submitted some improvements to the pascal code.
> Look at objects for example. The author of that benchmark forgot to .free
> those classes. C++ for example uses static classes and inlines. So that's for
> the "comparison".
> 
> Don't trust those benchmarks, most are just a load of bullshit.

Indeed. The code submitted for pascal made my hair grey on the spot !!

Obviously we're not going to score high with flawed code in the 
benchmarks...

Michael.