[fpc-devel] Benchmark for FreePascal

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, darekM wrote:

> > But why it is in separated unit, nobody know about it (or to few). F.e. 
> > Lazarus has own implementation of buffering.

Lazarus had to do a long time with FPC 1.0.x _and_ 2.0.x. Not all artefacts of that
transition are already banned.

> > If we want to make faster programs, object like my should be in core unit, 
> > then everybody use them, in other case every make own implementation.
> 
> Maybe, but then we should put all streams in Classes, and we're not going to
> do that.

Rule of thumb: specialised versions not in generically meant units, indeed.