[fpc-devel] Re: Faster Implementation for IntToStr

[Sven Barth]

Am 03.09.2012 15:37, schrieb Nico Erfurth:
> On 03.09.12 14:04, Sven Barth wrote:
>
>> It will be interesting to benchmark Delphi's ARM compiler once it comes
>> out as we had quite some work on the ARM optimizer in the last months
>> and so there is the chance that FPC performs better on ARM than Delphi :)
>
> Well, AFAIK the Delphi compiler for ARM will be based on LLVM. So in the
> current state FPC will loose big time. But we're making progress, I'm
> benchmarking from time to time and over the last months we've gained
> 10-15%. But there are a lot of optimizations which are hard to solve
> with the current way the compiler works.

Right... I forgot that they are using LLVM -.-

Regards,
Sven