please check for viruses, I think my PC is clean but you can never be too careful.
almost forgot, it's 64-bit version
let me know when you have downloaded the file so I can remove the link.
There shouldn't be a big difference because this test is full of square root calculations - and that is an extremely slow instruction. So it's all hardware dependent.srvaldez wrote:my times were about 11 seconds on both the FP and FB
Why not? It is a proper windows installer. Inno setup.dodicat wrote:I get about 10 seconds with -gen gcc -Wc -O3
I cannot run the risk of using a .exe installer on win 10. (
At the very least the location of the uninstaller and other settings to make a program visible in the "installed programs" dialog. It can also modify the path, but there is a tick box to not do it.Does it write to the registry?
The installer engine is up to date, and as of windows vista and later, stuff is rarely thrown in windows dirs anymore. If so, it is added to "common files" and the uninstaller removes it. FPC does not anyway.does it put files all over windows?)
I don't see why it is different from any other Windows application. Maybe in time it will be a .msi though.I know it is free, but any half decent compiler should have the option of a .zip.
Yes, that's why it is an OPTION. And even if you did, you can simply edit it. Nearly all toolchains (even Visual Studio or Delphi) pack an own build or version of at least MAKE, so that is normal anyway.dodicat wrote:Thank you marcov.
svarldez's zip fpc works well here.
Windows:
I note that If I had used the installer and agreed to put fpc.exe on path then I would also have put a 67 KB gcc.exe on path, along with a multitude of other executable files.
We had it. It had 5000:1 download ratio. It is just not worth the trouble for the kind of users that have been shown to give up easily anyway.dodicat wrote:Fair enough marcov.
But I still think that you should have a portable(zip, 7Z,whatever) version of FreePascal.
Other compilers have, Dev-C++, FreeBASIC of course, Haskell, ...
You might attract more punters (sorry ... developers).
About Geany, you can just tell it where your fbc.exe, python.exe, fpc.exe, etc is. Last one never tried.dodicat wrote:An ide that requires it's compiler on path (geany I believe, scite , notepad2, codeblocks (not sure about all of these), I avoid.
My benchmarks here use version 3.0.4, so I hope they are relevant.marcov wrote:FPC 2 are nearly complete rewrite, and not comparable. So benchmarking with 1.0.6 is a waste of time. Yours, and ours.
The textual read is not what I expect, but I don't have time to investigate. Things changed there because of unicode support.jj2007 wrote:My benchmarks here use version 3.0.4, so I hope they are relevant.marcov wrote:FPC 2 are nearly complete rewrite, and not comparable. So benchmarking with 1.0.6 is a waste of time. Yours, and ours.