At http://www.fourmilab.ch/fbench/fbench.html John Walker, formerly of Autodesk, rates FPC as one of the faster languages but remarks "To the best of my knowledge, none of the language implementations tested exploit the thread-level parallelism implemented in modern processors."

Allowing that he used FPC 2.2.0, is optimisation etc. likely to have improved enough that somebody could usefully suggest he rerun the test?

Allowing that he used FPC 2.2.0, is optimisation etc. likely to have

improved enough that somebody could usefully suggest he rerun the test?

Upgrading his tools would be better, they're waaaaaaay to old. However, for FPC, I'd like to see when the next stable release comes out. There are new optimizations that could give noticable improvement.