[fpc-devel] Re: Faster Implementation for IntToStr

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 3 Sep 2012, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:

> On 03/09/12 08:33, Michael Schnell wrote:
>> 
>> OTOH, for such a low-level stuff ASM _might_ provide a speed advantage.
>
> Or it means the FPC compiler has place for improvement converting Object 
> Pascal code to ASM - generating more optimised ASM with -O2 or -O3 
> parameters.

Certainly, but the code used in that asm implementation is quite out of 
reach for compilers.

Daniël