[fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 14.02.2016 um 12:47 schrieb Giuliano Colla:
> Il 14/02/2016 11:12, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
>> But then, I think such non-realword tests don't prove much.
> 
> Except that the implementation of inc(something) should be given a look,
> as it's always been sold as faster than something:=something+1
> 

No really. It is not a matter of +1 vs. inc but how it is compiled: as
add or lea. And the decision add vs. lea is not straight forward. It
depends on the surrounding code and the exact core. So without a
detailed analysis of the generated assembler with regard to the used
core any tests about it are useless. In theory, a compiler could decide
very good if add or lea is better. But this decision applies only to a
certain core and not in general. So for a all-purpose compiler this
makes little sense. If your application really depends on this, rewrite
the hotspots in C and use the icc to compile it. It knows about these
detais.