[fpc-pascal] Generics vs templates

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2018-01-08 10:58, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
> FPC essentially reparses a generic during specialization so I'd say that
> they definitely affect compile times. However we're still only doing a
> single pass of parsing. This while the compilation might be slower it might
> not be as bad as with a C++ compiler.
> 
> As far as I know no one has done a benchmark for that however.


Speaking of Generics and Benchmarks. Has anybody done some benchmarks on 
FPC's Generics vs "old-school" TList and TObjectList. Recently I did a 
very simple test with Delphi XE3 using TList<Integer> and a stock TList. 
Adding 50,000 and 200,000 integer values to each list, and timing the 
creation of the list and population of the list. Then I also timed the 
destruction of the list. I was horified to find out how much slower 
Delphi's Generics were compared to TList and TObjectList. Destruction 
was 250x slower in many cases. Creation and population of the list was 
5x-10x slower.

Lets hope FPC fares better. If nobody has done such tests, I can do it 
tomorrow at work with the same Delphi test code I created.


Regards,
   Graeme

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