[fpc-pascal] FPC now 3rd in shootout

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 5 Nov 2007, schreef S. Fisher:

> 
> --- Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > around. I have update the program to use a pchar instead of an ansistring
> > so it finishes within
> > reasonable time. The updated source can be found in:
> > 
> >
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk/tests/bench/shootout/src/regexdna.pp
> > 
> > But the code is a lot slower than gcc so there is still a lot of
> > performance tuning to do:
> > 
> >                100000  300000  500000
> > fpascal          1.169   4.581  11.754
> > gcc-2            1.033   3.078   5.111
> 
> Is it true that a slow program has a worse effect on the shootout
> results than a missing program?  That seems wrong to me.

There has been a long discussion on the Shootout forums about it. Isaac 
believes that it is more fair this way for languages that don't have all 
benchmarks implemented. Now we simply have to make him retract all our 
poor performing programs :)

Daniël