Pasfetch

My personal build of Drunken Alcoholic's Pasfetch, a simple fetch program written in Pascal.

Screenshot

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Installation

You can compile Pasfetch with the free and open source "Free Pascal Compiler". Just search your distro's packages for "fpc" and install, then compile by doing the following:

Compile

Use fpc to compile with optimizations

$ fpc -O3 -CpCOREAVX2 -OpCOREAVX2 -CfAVX2 -Xs pasfetch.pas

or run the included shell script to compile and cleanup

$ ./cleanup.sh

If you get an error on "ld" not found, install the "binutils" package for your distribution

Install

Copy the compiled binary to a folder in your $PATH e.g "$HOME/.local/bin"

then make it executable

$ chmod +x pasfetch

Usage

Either call the program by using pasfetch in a shell or add to your shell's rc file.

$ pasfetch

Why

I came across this by accident one day, and it happened to be significantly faster than what I was using previously, especially over 1000 runs. Using it as intended, the difference was negligible. I still switched though because I prefer to get free performance where possible, and I like to toy around with old hardware, and so this difference could be much more substantial there.

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