(Frequently asked?) Questions
- Why Pascal?
- Speed, experience, tools, easy to switch between win/linux... There are many codecs written in C, but afaik none in Pascal. So I made one ;)
- What about speed? Code written in C would be faster.
- Code speed depends not only on language, but on compiler too. And FreePascal generates quite fast code ;). In addition, some speed-critical functions have been rewritten to assembly with MMX/SSE1/2 instructions usage. This is used in C codecs too, so difference would be small, if there would be one.
- Which OSes are supported?
- Win32 a 32-bit Linux were tested and working fine with fpc 2.2.0.
- I have other questions.
- Write me to imcold at users.sourceforge.net or to my Jabber account: imcold@jabber.sk.