[fpc-other] Re: Shootout: k-nucleotide implementation (was: Which programming language is fastest?)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 14 May 2011 13:22:40 +0200
Bernd Kreuss <prof7bit at googlemail.com> wrote:

> They seem to have put a ban on me or on the mere mentioning of the topic
> of optimizing a certain piece of FPC code on the mailinglistm, even
> though I explicitly changed the thread topic. I did not know that it is
> not allowed to discuss concrete code examples (or certain types of code
> examples) on the FPC list. 

It is allowed in general. In fact these benchmarks have been discussed
several times on the fpc mailing lists. There were even some compiler
optimizations. But afaik it turned out that these optimizations and the
discussions didn't help any real world application. So it is an
interesting sport for some programmers, but mostly a waste of time for
all others. I guess that's the reason for moving this thread
to fpc-other.


Mattias