[fpc-pascal] Re: Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi7?

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

Hi,

On 8/12/2011 8:50 μμ, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 8 December 2011 18:41, Florian Klaempfl  wrote:
>> And? The conclusion is what we concluded years ago: be as delphi
>> compatible as possible else people start to cry soon or later. The funny
>> thing is only that this time the people cry who didn't draw this
>> conclusion yet.
> I'll be the first to admit, I think most of this "delphi
> compatibility" is crap. But there is a BIG difference between being
> compatible, and being totally unusable. Clearly many here have listed
> that they use Random in a recursion function, and in such a case the
> HUGE speed penalty makes the current Random() implementation
> unsuitable and unusable.

it's unusable by you.

I can live currently with the current implementation or with any 
implementation you or someone else do.

IMHO, "Much adoe about nothing" ....

regards,
-- 
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis