[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Mar 1 20:59:41 CET 2013



On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In order to have a good benchmark for FPC I made MSEide+MSEgui Delphi 7 
>> compatible again.
>> Source (master branch 2400be4999b254dbf335e4777baa33b13ea72649):
>> http://gitorious.org/mseide-msegui
>
> For a correct test, you should not enable debug information in FPC.
> Or enable generation of turbo debug information and the corresponding linker 
> map in Delphi.
>
> Otherwise you are comparing apples with pears, as -D+ in delphi does not do 
> nearly the same thing as -g in FPC.
>
> That said, it takes about 30 seconds on Linux on a laptop to do the same 
> thing.

Forgot to say that this is done using the 64-bit, unoptimized version of FPC, 
which is probably slow when compared to the 32-bit optimized version of FPC.

Michael.



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