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#100329 - Outlaw - Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:40 am

Hi folks,

I just figuered out that FreePascal now supports GBA Development. Does anyone have experiences with that ? I'm especially interested in the binary sizes, speed, handling and so on ..

Greetz

Outlaw
www.yakuza.de.be

#100421 - Legolas - Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:49 pm

Outlaw wrote:
Hi folks,

I just figuered out that FreePascal now supports GBA Development. Does anyone have experiences with that ? I'm especially interested in the binary sizes, speed, handling and so on ..

Greetz

Outlaw
www.yakuza.de.be


I am the person who made the fpc porting for gba target. :) About speed, it seems very good to me, though I have made some simple test only... The guys on fpc message board affirm that fpc for ARM produces better optimized asm code than gcc.
About binary size, I can tell you that it is only a bit bigger than gcc. When the internal linker will be available for arm target, binary size will be stripped down even more :)
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