Free Pascal 2.0.2

[Legolas]

Sly: Thats great news!

Oh man... :? Talk about disappointing, the GBA support that FPK had added to the SourceForge CVS was not released with the 2.0.2 source release. :cry:

So I guess we just have to keep bugging him. Or releasing new modification packages for concurrent versions.

I sent you some weeks ago a PM about a new GBA porting. Do you have tried to play with this new release?

[technomage]

Long string operations were much slower in FPC, but in latest code (as of a few days ago), long string operations have been sped up dramatically. This was reported in the FPC mailing list.

So any operations using the standard string type would have been slower in an earlier releae :?: That would explain allot, jasonf was working on a linux port of the Guns DelphiX demo, but we saw major performance differences between delphi compiled binaries and FPC, the code made heavy use of StringLists to store and search for data. I'l try compiling the code with FPC 2.0.2 and see if there performance increase.

[Almindor]

Use {$implicitexceptions off} (IIRC, check if it's right)
and you'll see DRAMATIC ansistring speed increase.

This is dangerous because if you made setupid memory bugs you won't see them so do only when your program is release-able.

Long story short, the speed is in in implicit try finaly for all managed types (dynarrays, ansistrings)