On 04 May 2010, at 16:01, Andrew Brunner wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > >> ... and why we do not do this *for Windows*. > > I disagree. I think some thought should go into having a > multi-threaded system for building projects. If we had a dependency > tree worker threads could transverse the tree and compile near > instantly. Having a linear compile for projects so 1980s. With CPUs > and memory on all new computers in the gig range... I say it's time to > start thinking about commercial users :-) > With a multi-threaded system for compiling and reporting status, I > believe that native compilers would be completely justified... But > it's kinda like the chicken before the egg, again isn't it? How > ironic to say the least.
Cross-compilers can be just as multi-threaded as "native" ones. This is a completely orthogonal feature. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel