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

[Sven Barth]

On 28.02.2013 11:45, 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.

Optimisation is also not necessarily easy. Especially if you are on the 
assembler level you need to know the CPU's characteristics. I might dive 
a bit deeper into the topic of optimizations once m68k is ready for 
optimizations... (currently I only use -O- there :) )

Regards,
Sven