Some people requested a Patreon post as to my plans for 2022 with FPC,
so I was happy to oblige. Plans may change a bit though depending on
what happens in life and also what Florian's own vision is with the
compiler, but this is the gist of it:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/60922821
Gareth
On 09/01/2022 01:47, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
I take it, it also is one (or two?) bytes longer? If that is in a
loop, which otherwise is exactly within a 32 byte aligned block, then
that could cause a slow down too. (If the loop is 16 bytes long, but
aligned to a 32byte-bound+16, then
On 09/01/2022 01:37, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
Hi everyone,
So a merge request of mine was just approved that allows the peephole
optimizer access to more registers when it needs one for temporary
storage. It allows it to make an optimisation on x86_64-win64 that
wasn't possible
Hi everyone,
So a merge request of mine was just approved that allows the peephole
optimizer access to more registers when it needs one for temporary
storage. It allows it to make an optimisation on x86_64-win64 that
wasn't possible before due to the lack of available volatile registers.
In
Hi,
There's been a hot debate in the bugtracker about fixing Val() for
signed variables.
There's a patch (in fact there are several), and an attempt to speed
Val() up significantly by having helper functions for each type of
input.
It looks like this is going to be fixed soon (and hopefully be merg
