[fpc-devel] for-in-index loop

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Generics was implemented without my knowledge. I only found out when
>> suddenly
>> the classes unit had been changed to use them. After a horrible
>> discussion, this was reversed, because of the drop in speed you got when
>> using generics.
>
> Ah! So that is where those ifdefs in classes come from :) I always
> wondered...
>
Is the drop still present/essential? Perhaps optimizer is now good
enough to drop those ifdefs?

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Alexander S. Klenin