[fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-05-15 22:50, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> Graeme will need to clarify whether he was trying to be harsh on FPC
> entirely, or just specifically in some areas.. :-)

I'll try and clarify... I believe FPC generates slow (or slower than 
Delphi, GCC and Java) code no matter what. The saving grace is that you 
don't really notice it on normal event-based desktop applications. 
Writing a game is a whole different story. Games are way more sensitive 
to performance.

Now the game I wrote, was a desktop GUI application. It was slow under 
Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. So the results were consistent, no matter 
what GUI API was used.... Be that fpGUI (via GDI), fpGUI (via X11) or 
LCL-GTK2. In all cases, game rendering was to a memory image, then once 
done, that memory image was bitblit to the Window Canvas.

The Java and GCC versions did the same, but were faster.

That's all I can say about. Make your own assumptions - read into it any 
conspiracy theories or what-not. ;-) At this point I don't really care, 
as I already moved on with that project, using OpenGL instead (both for 
Java and Object Pascal).

Regards,
   Graeme

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