[fpc-pascal] try..finally vs interfaces performance

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Mazola Winstrol wrote:

> Recently i did some maintenance in a code of a colleague. I realized that
> he designed several classes with interface support so he do not need to
> protect the code blocks with try..finally to ensure that the instances are
> released from memory.
>
> Theoretically, which solution has higher performance? The traditional
> approach (code protected try..finally) or classes with interfaces (no need
> to protect the code. by otherside, classes with interfaces support have
> lock operations)?
>

It should be exactly the same. 
As soon as interfaces are used the compiler inserts an implicit try...finally in a procedure.
You can see this if you step through the code with GDB, the execution point
will jump to the end of the procedure and then back to the beginning...

Michael.