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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 9 December 2011 09:47, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>
> According to measurements of me and other peoples, random is only 7-10
> times slower (depending on the CPU).

What do you feed your computer, because mine differs vastly from yours.

Not to mention that our clients still run P4 workstations under
Win2000 or XP. So lets hope no production code uses Random() a lot.


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