[fpc-pascal] FreePascal 2.0.2 available

[Florian Klaempfl]

Adrian Veith wrote:

> Congratulations,
> 
> with fpc 2.0.2 it's the first time, we were able to compile and run our
> dbGonzales database server (complete delphi code). In earlier versions
> of fpc, we always had some problems (mostly with variants), which caused
> runtime crashes.
> First tests show that the execution speed of  the server is about 10% -
> 30% slower than the same code compiled with delphi (win32). On the first
> glance, i would say, that these performance problems are in the string
> related routines. But this is really a minor problem, since with fpc we
> are now able to port to other platforms and it seems that the code
> quality improves with each release of fpc.

Can you do some profiling? These is probably somewhere a bottleneck we didn't
recognize yet because usually fpc compiled applications are faster than delphi ones.

> 
> Thanks for this great compiler.
> 
> Adrian Veith.
>