[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 04 March 2013 07:08:25 Martin Schreiber wrote:
>
> Both Delphi 7 and Kylix 3 compiled MSEide feel more snappy than their FPC
> counterpart which is especially surprising for Delphi because Delphi
> widestrings are not reference counted.
>
Some more tests, starting MSEide, loading and highlighting the 277441 lines 
MacOSAll.pas from FPC 2.4.0:

FPC 2.6.2 Windows 3.2..3.5s
Delphi 7 Windows       4.0s
FPC 2.6.2 Linux        5.0s
Kylix 3 Linux          4.0s.

It seems there is actually a benefit of the reference counted Free Pascal 
UnicodeStrings on Windows.

Martin