In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: > > Both Delphi 7 and Kylix 3 compiled MSEide feel more snappy than their FPC > > counterpart which is especially surprising for Delphi because Delphi > > widestrings are not reference counted. > > > Some more tests, starting MSEide, loading and highlighting the 277441 lines > MacOSAll.pas from FPC 2.4.0: > > FPC 2.6.2 Windows 3.2..3.5s > Delphi 7 Windows 4.0s > FPC 2.6.2 Linux 5.0s > Kylix 3 Linux 4.0s. > > It seems there is actually a benefit of the reference counted Free Pascal > UnicodeStrings on Windows.
Speculation on the reasons: macosall is mostly a header (declarations), while the other programs probably have a higher code % ? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
