[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Martin Schreiber]

On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:12:51 Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 01.03.2013 22:40, schrieb Martin Schreiber:
> > On Friday 01 March 2013 22:30:31 Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> >> Am 01.03.2013 18:33, schrieb Martin Schreiber:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In order to have a good benchmark for FPC
> >>
> >> Expect the next release to be even slower.
> >
> > Will it produce better code instead?
>
> What means better? Faster? Less buggy? Smaller?
>
It means faster and smaller, Delphi 7 produced code is smaller and faster than 
FPC 2.6.2 code. A compiler must be bug free anyway. ;-)

> I did a quick test on win32, it seems to be a little bit smaller than
> 2.6.2:
>
> 02.03.2013  10:09         5.774.848 mseide.exe

Compiled with which FPC version?

Martin