Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Bart
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:33 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > This is not intentional. It can happen we don't see bugs. Of course this can happen, it happens on the lazarus side as well. > And I recall distinctly saying several times that you can mail directly if > you see no-one is reacting. Yo

Re: [fpc-devel] Rect drawing inconsistency in TFPCanvas

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: Hello, when working with TFPCanvas, I face an annoying inconsistency between fcl-image and all other image libraries I know (including LCL Graphics). The problem is that TFPCustomCanvas.FillRect and all other rect-aware methods (FillEllipse, etc..

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Bart wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM J. Gareth Moreton wrote: I guess I can get a bit impatient, Reaction time on ptaches in the fpc part of the bugtracker is rather long (especially when compared to the lazarus part of the bugtracker), I find that discouraging a

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Bart
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > I guess I can get a bit impatient, Reaction time on ptaches in the fpc part of the bugtracker is rather long (especially when compared to the lazarus part of the bugtracker), I find that discouraging as well. I have had patches (simple on

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Marģers . via fpc-devel
  fillchar is one useful function, but should be avoided from use in time critical code by any cost. Only reasonable way to improve fillchar is to make it internal function, where fpc can decide, depending on parameters, what will be best solution for filling mem with specified value. But it will

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Well, at least we're having a good civil conversation about it!  As long as we can talk and discuss things, then there's no harm, and hopefully someone like me who is over-enthusiastic at times can still be useful! I suppose loc[low(loc)] isn't necessarily bad and is guaranteed to be correct - j

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09/02/19 08:33, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: In the last patch that Jonas almost immediately closed, the speed savings were inconclusive because the number of cycles saved is probably only a few dozen, but I would argue it makes the code a bit more reasonable too because it replaces things like

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Thanks Michael, In the last patch that Jonas almost immediately closed, the speed savings were inconclusive because the number of cycles saved is probably only a few dozen, but I would argue it makes the code a bit more reasonable too because it replaces things like loc[low(loc)] with loc[0] and