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FPC 3.2.0 Released ! (Announce)

posted by marcov, 25.06.2020, 23:26

> I have no strong opinion about it. But I was always quite happy that in
> Turbo pascal I don't have to care about these things. (There are only
> compiler directives $F- and $F+)

If you choose a memory model larger than needed, in theory that is less performant, at least on old 486- hardware that is pretty much 1:1.

But for most stuff you just pick large, except for very small commandline programs you use compact. Huge is afaik more a speciality for backporting protected mode stuff.

Complete thread:

• FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 21.06.2020, 11:02 (Announce)
  • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - glennmcc, 23.06.2020, 06:11
    • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 23.06.2020, 09:13
  • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - Rugxulo, 25.06.2020, 08:48
    • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - Laaca, 25.06.2020, 11:14
      • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 25.06.2020, 23:26
        • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - Rugxulo, 26.06.2020, 01:21
          • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 26.06.2020, 12:13
      • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - Rugxulo, 26.06.2020, 01:16
    • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 25.06.2020, 23:22
    • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - DosWorld, 26.06.2020, 17:05
      • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - marcov, 26.06.2020, 21:46
        • FPC 3.2.0 Released ! - Rugxulo, 09.09.2020, 20:51