On 9 December 2011 09:55, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Can you compile the fpc version for 32 bits (may make some difference) > and run it on windows (probably make no difference) to reduce the > differences in platform when you compare with Delphi?
-----------------------FPC 2.4.5 (r17953 from fixes_2_4 branch) ----------- Y:\tests\random_test>C:\FPC\2.4.5\bin\ppc386.exe speedtest.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.5 [2011/08/15] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian Klaempfl Y:\tests\random_test>speedtest Length(psData) = 200401 ByteValue: 180 Length(Source) = 200401 First Loop.... elapsed time: 7421 --------------------------------------------------------------------- So that's 7421 (FPC 32bit) divided by 11 (Delphi 7) = 674 times slower I'm compiling FPC 2.5.1 for 32bit windows now, to see if there is any difference between FPC versions, but I doubt there would be a big difference. What is weird is that the 32bit FPC is so much faster than the 64bit FPC. Strange... -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
