[fpc-pascal] Getting fast output

[Jonas Maebe]

On 22 Jul 2008, at 08:06, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2008, at 06:29, leledumbo wrote:
>
>> Peter Vreman wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/settextbuf.html
>>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/settextbuf.html
>>>
>> Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention this. But declaring the buffer will  
>> eat spaces
>> ,for instance:
>> ...
>> var
>> Buf: array [0..65535] of Byte;
>> ...
>> will add 64k to the executable because it's allocated on the stack.
>
> You can also allocate it on the heap.

But that won't help you in this case, because settextbuf does not  
change the flushing behaviour when writing to the screen. For that,  
you have to follow Tomas' advice.


Jonas