[fpc-pascal] First Test of FastMM4 for fpc

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Dec 19 11:37:44 CET 2005


Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 19 dec 2005, at 10:47, Adrian Veith wrote:
> 
>> Test1 isn't relevant anymore. And in Test2 and Test3 fpc beats  delphi
>> clearly. The benefits for the FastMM4 are now not that big  anymore,
>> but it helps to compare delphi and fpc on a fair base,  since the
>> impact of the MM is now leveled out.
> 
> 
> But currently all these optimization have come at the cost of various 
> new bugs in the ansistring handling (and possibly also in the heap 
> manager), so don't use the current 2.1.1 for production work at this 
> time. According to someone else's tests, svn revision 1948 is safe 
> revision 1966 and onwards isn't (I don't think he tested 1949-1965,  but
> 1949 is the one with the first optimizations).

I think it's the decr ref. problem, however, it shouldn't have an impact on
speed to fix this. I'll look at it tonight.



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