[fpc-devel] Faster InitObject
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Thu Feb 23 19:57:31 CET 2012
In our previous episode, Sergei Gorelkin said:
> > In August 2010 Florian already said that maybe FillChar should be optimized:
> > http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2010-July/021146.html (at the bottom)
> >
> In early 2011 I wrote an assembler implementation of FillChar for x86_64 (cannot be used for FreeBSD
> due to its toolchain problems), it executes approximately 4 times less instructions than generic
> version.
Meanwhile 2.6.1 and 2.7.1 should use internal assembler now. Is there something I can
test?
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