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Revision as of 17:41, 19 January 2011

FastCode is programming contest aimed at providing enhanced runtime library routines for Embarcadero Delphi. It was started in 2003 by Dennis Kjaer Christensen and at first it was hosted on Robert Lee's OptimalCode site.

The current project home is at http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/

The project is organized as a competition divided into challenges. Each challenge takes one function and optimizes it against a number of target (10-16). The project provides tools for benchmarking and validating each function contribution. 1 point is given for a contribution (maximally one function per target is given points) and 10 points are given for a target winner. A list with all contributors and their scores are maintained and at the end of each year a winner is celebrated. Borland/Codegear etc... have sponsored prizes.

List of Challenges

Contributions to Delphi RTL

FastCode functions included in the Delphi RTL:

Delphi 2005: CompareText, Int64Div and FillChar

Delphi 2006: CompareText, Int64Div and FillChar, New Memory Manager (FastMM4) [1]

Delphi 2007: ArcCos, ArcSin, Power, PosEx, Move, Memory Manager, FillChar, Pos, __lldiv, LowerCase, UpperCase, CompareStr, CompareMem, CompareText, StrLen, StrCopy, StrComp. [2]

Delphi 2009: ArcCos, ArcSin, Power, PosEx, Move, Memory Manager, FillChar, Pos, __lldiv, LowerCase, UpperCase, CompareStr, CompareMem, CompareText, StrLen, StrCopy, StrComp.

Delphi 2010: ArcCos, ArcSin, Power, PosEx, Move, Memory Manager, FillChar, Pos, __lldiv, LowerCase, UpperCase, CompareStr, CompareMem, CompareText, StrLen, StrCopy, StrComp.

Delphi XE: ArcCos, ArcSin, Power, PosEx, Move, Memory Manager, FillChar, Pos, __lldiv, LowerCase, UpperCase, CompareStr, CompareMem, CompareText, StrLen, StrCopy, StrComp.

The FastCode Library

Contributors

John O'Harrow, Pierre le Riche, Aleksandr Sharahov, Dennis Kjaer Christensen, Lars Bloch Gravengaard, Hagen Reddmann, Eric Grange, Robert Lee, Eric W. Carman, Avatar Zondertau, Robert Houdart.....

References