Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

2016-02-16 Thread Paulo Costa
On 16-Feb-16 18:53, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Serguei TARASSOV wrote: ... Sounds like the real-life programs don't use inner loops or don't solve NP-complete problems :) For info, my real-life examples are the application server and the DSL script engine. So any improvement of quality of FPC's

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

2016-02-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Serguei TARASSOV wrote: >>Well, as said before: if the speed of code like this is important for you, >>use C. >It's a wrong choice. >As we can see and reproduce, at least C# or other Pascal-like environments >(Oxygene) are significantly faster. >http://www.arbinada.com/main/en/node/1532 > Wh

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

2016-02-16 Thread Adrian Veith
small remark for your testing series: AVG makes no sense, you should test against MIN - why ? the measured results are contaminated by other activities on your system, so the fastest result is the most accurate, because there is no way to make a program to run faster, but many ways to make it run

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

2016-02-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, Serguei TARASSOV wrote: environments >(Oxygene) are significantly faster. >http://www.arbinada.com/main/en/node/1532 > What Florian means is that this is very artificial code, and that - although he has been able to apply the necessary patches to make FPC faster - the ne

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

2016-02-16 Thread Serguei TARASSOV
On 16/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:02:48 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Van Canneyt To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Serguei TARASSOV wrote: >On 15/02/2016 12:00,fpc-pas