Why not use the previous fpc version - I guess similar to that in delphi- I can remember an email when Jonas changed it quite a few years ago - Jonas must have older version - but can't really remember the fpc version - v1.0? My guess it could be found in either svn or more likely the older cvs fpc archive.
John On 7 December 2011 13:10, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 December 2011 14:54, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > > > That's correct. We use the mersenne twister, Delphi probably a linear > > congruential generator. The mersenne twister has a much larger period. > > OK thanks for the info. This is a serious performance hit, but I > understand that the FPC implementation is different. Does FPC have a > faster (comparable to Delphi) version of Random() too? > > @Michael, > Should the FPC docs maybe mention the fact that the FPC version is > considerably slower that Delphi (with an explanation why of course) - > purely for the purpose of informing those porting code from Delphi to > FPC. The original code in tiOPF is so slow, I almost thought the > program froze - thus making that code really unusable in an > application. Luckily that code will normally not be used in a real app > though. Delphi developers wanting to move to FPC should really be > warned about this, and use Random() sparingly. > > -- > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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