[fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

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Sun May 14 23:18:17 CEST 2017


On 2017-05-11 18:57, Jon Foster wrote:
> On 05/11/2017 02:48 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 2017-05-11 19:43, James Richters wrote:
>>> Any Suggestions?
>> 
>> Speed:
>>   In recent graphics work I've done, I've noticed that FPC is 
>> fantastic
>>   at created cross-platform applications. But the generated binaries
>>   are NOT fast at all - no matter how many compiler parameters and
>>   artificial speed optimisations we tried to implement. Sloppy Java
>>   code ended up 3x faster than the best I could get out of FPC
>>   generated binaries.
>> 
>>   I'm not saying this is your performance problem (especially 
>> comparing
>>   a 3Ghs PC vs a 233Mhz PC) - there certainly seems to be another
>>   problem contributing to your speed issue.
> Wow, Graeme! That's harsh. One of the last set of benchmarks I did
> that focused on integer math and procedure call speed came out as
> follows:

I think he specifically meant graphics apps, not general apps

But I'm not sure



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