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

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 08.12.2011 19:38, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> 2011/12/8 Tomas Hajny :
>> that FPC has ever claimed performing functionality at the same speed as
>> Delphi...
> 
> We all know FPC is much slower that Delphi... we live with it. But a
> function being 529x slower, and being the default implementation....
> Well, now that just makes we cringe. And as Jurgen said, such a
> magnitude slower makes in unusable!
> 

Can you please post your test program? On my core 2 duo it is only 10
times slower.