[fpc-devel] "Maybe Gareth can be convinced to spend his energy on this ... "

[Sven Barth]

J. Gareth Moreton <gareth at moreton-family.com> schrieb am Do., 27. Juni
2019, 12:18:

> One thing I have been considering is to promote fields and global
> variables to local registers to reduce memory accesses.  However, it would
> make multi-threaded code a bit trickier to write and demand the use of the
> "volatile" intrinsic on things like the conditions of while loops.
>

I think having record fields in registers would already go a long way.
Global variables aren't used /that/ often in modern, object oriented code
anyway.

Regards,
Sven
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