[fpc-pascal] Object pascal language compatiblity - was: Does FPC 2.8.0 can actually still be called Pascal ?

[Henry Vermaak]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:45:08AM +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2013-02-28 09:28, Marc Pertron wrote:
> > 
> > We need better optimisations at least as much as fancy 123.tostring.
> 
> 
> Bottom line.... optimisation work is just not as sexy and exciting as
> adding the latest Delphi/Java/C#/C language features. I guess we can't
> blame them for that.

An llvm target will move the optimisation burden away from fpc, which
would be very interesting.

Henry