On 25.02.2019 18:12, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
The compiler isn't a valid case because the input source is different
(because of the very changes made to said compiler). It needs to be a
project that doesn't share anything with the compiler (except the
run-time libraries), so the source code is exactly the same so that
when it is built, it runs the same no matter which version of the
compiler it was built with.
I'm viewing it as a bit of a scientific experiment, where only a
single variable is changed, namely the compiler used. The compiled
program should produce exactly the same output and otherwise behave
the same way, so that any time metrics reflect only how long it takes
to complete and hence is reflective only of the quality of the machine
code, not what the program is doing... if that makes any sense.
Gareth aka. Kit
Build Lazarus?
Ondrej
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