[fpc-pascal] Effective memory allocation

[Xiangrong Fang]

2014-11-03 14:39 GMT+08:00 Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:

>
> Would you mind to show the timings that you got for FillChar? :)


​Using FillChar is always about 5% (or less) faster than FillQWord when
used with GetMemory, but will be around 20%-40% faster if the memory is
allocated by SetLength.

Additionally this switch won't help you. The memory buffer that is
> allocated by SetLength is also allocated using GetMemory. So the buffer
> itself *is* aligned. But you don't get the start byte of the buffer in case
> of SetLength, but the first byte after the information record which might
> not be aligned correctly and *no* compiler switch will help you with that.
>

​Then the problem remains with SetLength vs. GetMemory... Why SetLength is
about 10000x (!) slower than GetMemory?​


​allocating 1G memory took about 0.1 second by SetLength​, but is about
1E-5 via GetMemory.
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