On 03/02/2019 22:15, code dz wrote: > in simple programs yes , fpc may match up c/c++ speed , but in a real > world app e.g ( ray tracer ) there is no chance , unless you go down > and write assembly .
That was my first-hand experience too. I wrote a 3d ray caster for a demo/game using FPC (code was made public in the Lazarus forums). No matter what was suggested, I couldn't get close to the performance of that same program written in C++ or Java. In fact, Java was the fastest (by a large margin) out of FPC's Object Pascal, C++, JavaScript and Java. FPC was even slower than JavaScript. I queried that with the FPC team. Their reply... They know FPC is lagging in performance, but that is due to their choice. They chose maintainability over performance, because they are a small development team. So in my opinion, unless the FPC team grows massively, or there is a dedicated developer in the FPC team that works purely on performance, nothing is going to change. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
