IDE Fix Pack 6.0 BETA

Andreas Hausladen · 2015-12-20

The IDE Fix Pack 6.0 BETA for XE2-10Seattle focuses on the Win64 compiler’s compile speed. It not only uses SSE2-SSE4.1 instructions to increase the compiler’s performance but it also optimizes for the most common cases. Micro optimizations are used for tight loops and functions that are called a million times.

Even with this patch the Win64 compiler isn’t on par with the Win32 compiler’s speed, but the difference isn’t that huge any more and there are still some possible optimization. But it takes a lot of time to analyze those and write the patches. And I if I would hold back the version 6.0 till all of those are completed, you will never see a version 6.0.

Because those changes to the compiler may intro bugs, I’m not releasing a gold version but a BETA version. That means that this isn’t meant for production use.

Don’t forgot: I’m not Embarcadero and I’m not fixing somebody’s pet bug. This BETA is all about the Win64 compiler speed optimizations. So please don’t report bugs (in the comments, at Google+, email) that aren’t related to the Win64 compiler speed optimizations. If the compiler outputs defect code with and without my patches, I won’t (and can’t) help you.

BETA Download:

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IDE Version

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IDE Fix Pack 6.0beta1 (unsupported)

XE2 (UP4+HF1)

IDEFixPackXE2Reg60beta1.7z

242.76 KB

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2015-12-19