I would argue how such a bounty would be rewarded here because overall performance gains have been done by multiple submitters. For example, I've submitted a number of improvements to the optimiser to produce both smaller and faster machine code.
And unfortunately not many of us have access to Kylix. Saying all that though, any improvement to FPC is greatly welcomed. Gareth aka. Kit On Thu 25/10/18 08:38 , Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org sent: > > > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Simon Kissel wrote: > > > > > - Make Exception handling, TLS etc use the > infrastructure that > > libpthread is providing > > > > TLS is handled already by libpthread. I doubt you will gain much there. > > > > However, Exception handling is a problem. There are 2 possible ways ahead: > > - DWARF exception handling as mentioned by Sven. > > - Port SEH to be cross platform, this is the approach as taken by Kylix. > > Kilyx has a small rtlunwind library that mimics the needed run-time > functionality > offered by Windows. > > > > Conceivably, it can be duplicated. wine probably has such a library which > > can be used as an inspiration. > > > > The needed compiler infrastructure for SEH already exists, so this is most > likely > the fastest way to proceed. > > > > Michael.. > > __________________________________________ _____ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc- de...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
