Blimey — feedback! I need a lie down.

Thank you, antarman.

srvaldez should get the credit. He supplied the engine — I just did the coachwork.

Sleep 1, Sleep 2, …, Sleep 15 all give a Sleep of 15 because Sleep is linked to the System Clock (64Hz). To get Sleep n to sleep for n milliseconds, then use: Declare Function settimer Lib "winmm" Alias "timeBeginPeriod"(As Ulong=1) As Long settimer That uses a timer with a frequ...

Use Randomize , 5

Why? Why not

Tee surface — Redirect input to multiple surfaces.

What would we do without srvaldez?

Unless I am mistaken, it looks like the compile time for the new gcc 11.2.0/clang is about half of what it was. It still takes longer than gcc, but for a lot of code published on the forum the difference may not be that noticeable. It is still worthwhile to develop in gas because that gives blisteri...

Regarding srvaldez's instructions. The llvm downloads are now 20240320 from 20240308 updated three days ago. The libLLVM.dll is now libLLVM-18.dll. My HASH program is now 2% faster than the previous clang using gcc 11.2.0/clang so we are pulling away further from gcc 9.3. My PRNG plot program lookin...

@dodicat

Really nice indeed.

Off-topic, but I had a look at fbc 1.20.0/gcc 11.2.0/clang vs fbc 1.10.1/gcc 9.3

Here are the binaries in KiB. clang likes 64-bit.

I take it that you were able to compile Encrypternet with clang? Three posts back: “My Encrypternet application isn't benefitting from a clang build, but that is wall-to-wall Microsoft cryptographic APIs.” At over 140MiB per second, the only thing which can improve on that is a more powerful CPU. :)

This where I have ended up: It also keeps life simple by just having two toolchains.

Performance wise, it is anyone's guess who wins: gcc 9.3 or gcc 11.2/clang.

On further tests, a gcc 11.2/clang is not much faster than gcc 9.3/clang using 64-bit. It is worth it for 32-bit with gcc 11.2/clang being about 4% faster than gcc 11.2. 32-bit gcc 9.3/clang is deplorable compared with gcc 9.3. I have no idea why. That is with my plot program. On balance, there is a...

Some surprises here. With my 500MiB hash program there was no appreciable difference performance wise between 32-bit and 64-bit using either gcc 9.3 clang or gcc 11.2 clang. clang was about 7% faster in all cases compared with gcc. However it is worth noting that we are using a Microsoft API. With m...

Using srvaldez's instructions, I did a gcc 8.1.0/clang. I always liked gcc 8.3.0. Applying to various code, there was very little difference 8.1.0 vs 9.3.0 performance wise 32-bit or 64-bit. The 9.3.0 binaries were significantly smaller, which surprised me. 9.3.0/clang seems to be the better, but it...

After following srvaldez's build instructions, change the name of the toolchain to:

FreeBASIC-1.20.0-gcc-9.3.0cl

That will appear in WinFBE's Compiler Setup and

fbc 1.20.0 / gcc 9.3.0cl

will appear in SCS III's status bar.