"Konstantine Poukhov" <✉nospam.com> wrote in message news:✉forums.embarcadero.com...
>I was always very sensitive about that part and this was > one of the reasons why I was ignoring Lazarus/FP combination. > So few days ago I compiled Scimark tests for x64 target > (the only one I care about) and guess bloody what. > Code produced by Lazarus/FP ran with the same speed. > > C/C++ is still much faster and I may still go that route > for new project (depending on couple of things) but > it looks to me that Lazarus is stating to look like > very possible replacement for Delphi. > > Of course I will have to do more tests in different areas, but ...
FPC 2.7.1 faster than 2.6.x for x86 targets in SciMark tests and ~25% faster than delphi