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Free Pascal is not a powerhouse building large FP+SDL projects such as GearHead 1 and 2. A comparable 486 program for DOS would be almost as slow if it was back
by anthk 2y ago
Free Pascal is not a powerhouse building large FP+SDL projects such as GearHead 1 and 2.
A comparable 486 program for DOS would be almost as slow if it was backported to DOS+FPC.
- pjmlp 2y agoMaybe, but that isn't Borland's Turbo Pascal compiler, nor Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero's Delphi. Most likely a consequence of how many compiler writers care about optimizations in FPC codebase.