[fpc-pascal] code optimization

[Jonas Maebe]

On 23 Sep 2010, at 16:59, Adrian Veith wrote:

> I analyzed your code - I think the problem is the array element  
> address
> calculation of the fpc compiler. You have a lot of code like
> Bar[MinValley] etc. The delphi compile uses the lea assembler code for
> this, whereas fpc calculates the address of one element with imul   
> which
> is much slower.

Please see the last paragraph of http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2010-September/026510.html

> Anyway you could speed up your code significantly if you
> help the compiler by reducing the address calculations with the help  
> of
> pointers like this:

It may help a lot, but only because it will reduce register pressure,  
not because the multiplications are gone.


Jonas