[fpc-pascal] Win a PowerMac G5 by porting FPC to Linux/PPC64

2005-03-29 Thread Jonas Maebe
Hello, The Free Pascal Compiler team is proud to announce that the Free Pascal Compiler has been selected to participate in IBM's Linux On Power contest. The goal is to create a port for Linux running on PowerPC 64 bit processors. The current compiler already contains support for Linux running

Re: [fpc-pascal] Floating Point Performance on Intel

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Ruzicka
Sorry for previous reply. I overlooked use of the index variable X. Which C compiler are you comparing the FPC with? GCC, MSVC, CC (include version please) Some compilers have a function optimization, some have just a statement optimization. Could you post a whole example? The whole program would

Re: [fpc-pascal] Floating Point Performance on Intel

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Ruzicka
On Mar 28, 2005, at 10:19, Raw Magick DOT COM wrote: A := 0; B := 0.9; For X := 0 to 1000 do begin A := A + X; A := A * B; end; # Var A located at ebp-4 # Var B located at ebp-8 # Var X located at ebp-12 //A + B are set up before here - its the loop