[fpc-devel] don't you think it'stime toupdatedelphimodecompatibility? - IDispatch, implements

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jamie McCracken wrote:

>>> well thats soemthing you should add to your to do list. Automatic
>>> inlining can deliver a signifcant performance improvement especially
>>> as delphi uses a lot of one line procedures to set property values. A
>>> fucntion call adds quite a bit of overhead (around 10+ clock cycles
>>> at a guess)
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>> But inlining doesn't help if the one line procedures are virtual methods. 
> 
> 
> Well thats not a limitation on other languages. EG for Java the get/set
> property methods were identified as causing one of the biggest
> performance hits and thats why now almost every JIT/AOT inlines them

They are basically interpreted languages which suck anyways:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=java&sort=fullcpu

> automatically (the same also applies to Mono).

Even against FPC it doesn't help java much:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=java&lang2=fpascal&sort=fullcpu

> 
> jamie.
> 
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