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FPC and Delphi for Linux asm Comparison
_ZN6Mormot4Core10Interfaces8FindGuidEPPNS1_17TInterfaceFactoryEiyy PROC
; WEAK _ZN6Mormot4Core10Interfaces8FindGuidEPPNS1_17TInterfaceFactoryEiyy
push rbp ; 0000 _ 55
mov rbp, rsp ; 0001 _ 48: 89. E5
mov qword ptr [rbp-20H], rcx ; 0004 _ 48: 89. 4D, E0
mov qword ptr [rbp-18H], rdx ; 0008 _ 48: 89. 55, E8
mov dword ptr [rbp-0CH], esi ; 000C _ 89. 75, F4
mov qword ptr [rbp-8H], rdi ; 000F _ 48: 89. 7D, F8
; Note: Immediate operand could be made smaller by sign extension
cmp dword ptr [rbp-0CH], 0 ; 0013 _ 81. 7D, F4, 00000000
jle ?_1806 ; 001A _ 7E, 5F
jmp ?_1804 ; 001C _ EB, 00
?_1804: mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-8H] ; 001E _ 48: 8B. 45, F8
mov rax, qword ptr [rax] ; 0022 _ 48: 8B. 00
mov qword ptr [rbp-28H], rax ; 0025 _ 48: 89. 45, D8
mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-28H] ; 0029 _ 48: 8B. 45, D8
mov rax, qword ptr [rax+8H] ; 002D _ 48: 8B. 40, 08
mov rax, qword ptr [rax+28H] ; 0031 _ 48: 8B. 40, 28
mov qword ptr [rbp-30H], rax ; 0035 _ 48: 89. 45, D0
mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-30H] ; 0039 _ 48: 8B. 45, D0
mov rax, qword ptr [rax] ; 003D _ 48: 8B. 00
cmp rax, qword ptr [rbp-18H] ; 0040 _ 48: 3B. 45, E8
jnz ?_1805 ; 0044 _ 75, 10
mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-30H] ; 0046 _ 48: 8B. 45, D0
mov rax, qword ptr [rax+8H] ; 004A _ 48: 8B. 40, 08
cmp rax, qword ptr [rbp-20H] ; 004E _ 48: 3B. 45, E0
jnz ?_1805 ; 0052 _ 75, 02
jmp ?_1807 ; 0054 _ EB, 2D
?_1805: mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-8H] ; 0056 _ 48: 8B. 45, F8
; Note: Immediate operand could be made smaller by sign extension
add rax, 8 ; 005A _ 48: 05, 00000008
mov qword ptr [rbp-8H], rax ; 0060 _ 48: 89. 45, F8
mov ecx, dword ptr [rbp-0CH] ; 0064 _ 8B. 4D, F4
; Note: Immediate operand could be made smaller by sign extension
sub ecx, 1 ; 0067 _ 81. E9, 00000001
mov dword ptr [rbp-0CH], ecx ; 006D _ 89. 4D, F4
; Note: Immediate operand could be made smaller by sign extension
cmp dword ptr [rbp-0CH], 0 ; 0070 _ 81. 7D, F4, 00000000
jnz ?_1804 ; 0077 _ 75, A5
jmp ?_1806 ; 0079 _ EB, 00
?_1806: mov qword ptr [rbp-28H], 0 ; 007B _ 48: C7. 45, D8, 00000000
?_1807: mov rax, qword ptr [rbp-28H] ; 0083 _ 48: 8B. 45, D8
pop rbp ; 0087 _ 5D
ret ; 0088 _ C3
.text.n_mormot.core.interfaces_$$_findguid$pinterfacefactory$longint$qword$qword$$tinterfacefactory SEGMENT PARA 'CODE' ; section number 49
MORMOT.CORE.INTERFACES_$$_FINDGUID$PINTERFACEFACTORY$LONGINT$QWORD$QWORD$$TINTERFACEFACTORY LABEL NEAR
test esi, esi ; 0000 _ 85. F6
jle ?_0283 ; 0002 _ 7E, 23
; Filling space: 4H
; Filler type: Multi-byte NOP
; db 0FH, 1FH, 40H, 00H
ALIGN 8
?_0281: mov rax, qword ptr [rdi] ; 0008 _ 48: 8B. 07
mov r8, qword ptr [rax+8H] ; 000B _ 4C: 8B. 40, 08
mov r8, qword ptr [r8+28H] ; 000F _ 4D: 8B. 40, 28
cmp rdx, qword ptr [r8] ; 0013 _ 49: 3B. 10
jnz ?_0282 ; 0016 _ 75, 06
cmp rcx, qword ptr [r8+8H] ; 0018 _ 49: 3B. 48, 08
jz ?_0284 ; 001C _ 74, 0B
?_0282: add rdi, 8 ; 001E _ 48: 83. C7, 08
sub esi, 1 ; 0022 _ 83. EE, 01
jnz ?_0281 ; 0025 _ 75, E1
?_0283: xor eax, eax ; 0027 _ 31. C0
?_0284: ret ; 0029 _ C3
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synopse commented May 12, 2026

To be faire, dcc64 is not really worse than FPC. It is almost the same. FPC just get rid of a not-needed "test edx, edx" instruction, but in practice, the CPU would just ignore this and optimized it at micro-op level.
Both Delphi dcc32 and dcc64 generates FPC-like code for this function.
The issue is the LLVM backend usage in Delphi.

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