[fpc-pascal] Re: Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared Delphi 7?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Schindler Karl-Michael schrieb:
> The only question is on the time, when computers are so fast, that hardly anyone will bother about speed of the method. 
>   
That's nonsense. The only thing that happens if computers speed 
increases is, that you put more code into the same time slot. Otherwise 
working with computers would have become blinding fast but the opposite 
is the case. The speed increase of computers is overcompensated by 
burdening more code on them (which is also a consequence of an attitude 
like yours).

I have a program that generates data for a file to test network speed. 
Currently I am testing  on 100 MB/s. But soon my program will be used 
for 1 GB/s networks. So the data generation has to speed up by a factor 
of 10 if it should not slow down. It will never happen that the speed of 
the computer will make the impact of the random() function delay go 
away. If random() dominates your program it will do so in ten years too.