[fpc-pascal]Profiling and classes

[Peter Vreman]

>  Peter Vreman wrote:
>> Which compiler did you use? Which OO model did you use?
>> If the answers are 1.0.6 and class
>
> Right answer... :-)
>
>> then you should try the 1.1 compiler and
>> add {$implicitexceptions off}
>
> OK, I'll try the 1.1. What does the {$implicitexceptions off} do (I guess
> it
> turns implicit exceptions off, but... :-))? I couldn't find anything about
> it...
>

It's very new, so it's not documented yet. It was created to speed up the
compiler, the result was about 15%.

What it does it removes the expection frames from constructors. The result
is that implicit initialized local variables are not freed when there is
an unhandled expection in the constructor.