[fpc-pascal] FreePascal 2.0.2 available

[Peter Vreman]

> 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

If it are ansistrings it can also be the overhead of exceptions. You can
try to improve speed with {$implicitexceptions off}, but with the risk of
some memory leaks.