[fpc-devel] The 15k bounty: Optimizing executable speed for Linux x86 / LLVM

[Adriaan van Os]

Simon Kissel wrote:

> This isn't about FPC's code not scaling with N cores, it does.
> It is about it being slow as soon as threads are used *at all*,

N cores being near N times faster than "not using threads at all".

> due to TLS stuff and exception handling. It's slow in a linear
> fashion, so to say...

You didn't answer any of my questions. The goal is to get the code faster, isn't it. Or are you 
writing an academic thesis on compilers ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os