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

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 04 March 2013 14:54:01 Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:50:17 +0100
>
> Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Any idea, why FPC Linux is slower than FPC Windows?

I don't know. I often find Windows 2000 faster than Linux.

Martin