[fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

[Adrian Veith]

small remark for your testing series:
AVG makes no sense, you should test against MIN  - why ? the measured
results are contaminated by other activities on your system, so the
fastest result is the most accurate, because there is no way to make a
program to run faster, but many ways to make it run slower.

Am 16.02.2016 um 12:19 schrieb Serguei TARASSOV:
> On 16/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:02:48 +0100 (CET)
>> From: Michael Van Canneyt<michael at freepascal.org>
>> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
>> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Serguei TARASSOV wrote:
>>
>>> >On 15/02/2016 12:00,fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org  wrote:
>>>> >>Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:55:55 +0100
>>>> >>From: Florian Kl?mpfl<florian at freepascal.org>
>>>> >>To:<adrian at veith-system.de>, "FPC-Pascal users discussions"
>>>> >>    <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>, Adrian Veith<adrian at vtim.de>
>>>> >>Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark
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>>>> >>Well, as said before: if the speed of code like this is important
>>>> for you,
>>>> >>use C.
>>> >It's a wrong choice.
>>> >As we can see and reproduce, at least C# or other Pascal-like
>>> environments
>>> >(Oxygene) are significantly faster.
>>> >http://www.arbinada.com/main/en/node/1532
>>> >
>> What Florian means is that this is very artificial code, and that -
>> although
>> he has been able to apply the necessary patches to make FPC faster - the
>> necessary optimizations are not likely to help in real-life programs.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> Sounds like the real-life programs don't use inner loops or don't
> solve NP-complete problems  :)
> For info, my real-life examples are the application server and the DSL
> script engine.
> So any improvement of quality of FPC's generated code are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Serguei
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