[fpc-pascal] Not specifying the {$H+} degrades performance

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

If I have a .pas unit and forgot to specify the compiler mode line
   {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
what does FPC default to? Compiler Mode? Longstring or Shortstring?

I wrote a string tokenizer and did some time trials against an old
tokenizer I used.  First I forgot to include the compiler mode line
above and did some test runs.  I then noticed my mistake and added in
that line and did some more test runs.  The second set of tests where
on avg 10% faster!

After some more testing I realized it is the {$H+} that gave me the
performance boost.  What does FPC default to? Why not default to {$H+}
?


Lazarus added the following compiler parameters:
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 -S2cgi -OG1 -gl -vewnhi -l
-Fu/opt/lazarus/components/fpcunit/lib/i386-linux/
-Fu/opt/lazarus/components/synedit/units/i386-linux/
-Fu../../3rdParty/tiOPF2/Source/Compilers/FPC/lib/i386-linux/
-Fu/home/graemeg/programming/3rdParty/FBlib/lib/i386-linux/
-Fu/opt/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/
-Fu/opt/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-linux/gtk/
-Fu/opt/lazarus/packager/units/i386-linux/ -Fu. -ofpcunitproject1
-dUseCThreads -dLCL -dLCLgtk
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Graeme Geldenhuys

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