[fpc-devel] heap.inc evo 2 when

2025-05-18 Thread runewalsh via fpc-devel
To the People of Power: Accept !1005 or I will kill one hostage every 24 hours. It’s a real-world problem that occured in FPC and was fixed ad hoc in https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/994#note_2476334544 + https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/commit/d2926

[fpc-devel] Vectorisation development

2025-05-18 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Hi everyone, Just thought I'd give a heads-up on my latest mad experiments! I'm currently working to see if I can improve auto-vectorisation within the compiler.  I'm using x86_64 as my starting point since SSE2 is guaranteed to be present, but aiming to make it as cross-platform as possible