[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> On Monday 04 March 2013 07:08:25 Martin Schreiber wrote:
>>
>> Both Delphi 7 and Kylix 3 compiled MSEide feel more snappy than their FPC
>> counterpart which is especially surprising for Delphi because Delphi
>> widestrings are not reference counted.
>>
> Some more tests, starting MSEide, loading and highlighting the 277441 lines
> MacOSAll.pas from FPC 2.4.0:
>
> FPC 2.6.2 Windows 3.2..3.5s
> Delphi 7 Windows       4.0s
> FPC 2.6.2 Linux        5.0s
> Kylix 3 Linux          4.0s.
>
> It seems there is actually a benefit of the reference counted Free Pascal
> UnicodeStrings on Windows.

Thanks for sharing some good news as well :-)

Michael.