On 13 Jul 2010, at 01:46, Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
> Florian Klaempfl schrieb: >> For me, a much higher priority when doing rewrites might be >> multithreading nf the compiler itself. > > That's questionable, depending on the real bottlenecks in compiler operation. > I suspect that disk I/O is the narrowest bottleneck, that can not be widened > by parallel processing. Unless you are doing a cold compile, the main bottlenecks in the compiler are the memory manager (mostly the allocation of memory, freeing is faster), zero-filling new class instances (and partially resetting the register allocator) and tobject.initinstance. > It also requires further research, for e.g. the determination of the optimal > number of threads, depending on the currently available resources on a > concrete machine. We'd just use the same approach as make: allow the user to specify the number of parallel operations. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
