On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:50:17 +0100 Martin Schreiber <mse00...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 04 March 2013 07:08:25 Martin Schreiber wrote: > > > > 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. Any idea, why FPC Linux is slower than FPC Windows? Loading and highlighting does not sound like a task where many OS calls are involved. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel