L> 3. speed - not a big deal. Hardware cheap enough. If you ship programs, it's not you who decide whether hardware is cheap.
If you do a small repetitive task several millions times, speed may easily differ hundred times (for example: compiled piece of code fits into cache, but interpreted doesn't; multiply by misc inefficiencies inside cycle). Uncommon data processing may easily require such repetitive tasks. If all tasks were common, program development would suffer much. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
