[fpc-pascal] Re: making FPC more code optimized

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 29.04.2012 12:13, schrieb ik:
> Let's take simple program:
> 
> ---- pascal code ----
> 
> program hello;
> 
> begin
>   writeln('Hello World');
> end.
> 
> ----- pascal code ----
> 
> vs c code:
> 
> ------ c code -----
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
>   printf("Hello World\n");
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> ------ c code ------
> 
> The code executable will be not only smaller, but takes less memory to
> run, 

How did you measure this? Did you take the dyn. libs into account or did
you link statically? For me, the FPC executable is much smaller, gcc
-static creates something with 500 kB, and 1000 runs of the FPC version
take 20 per cent less time than the C one?