Am 12.08.2010 09:13, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > [...just curious...] > > As far as I understand, the Windows version of FPC has an internal linker > which greatly improved the speed of building/linking software on that > platform.
Yes. > > Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for that > matter) have it's own internal linker? Is it simply because nobody wrote it > yet, Because nobody wrote one yet. But: the gnu elf linker is faster than the gnu windows coff linker so the gain and motiviation is less to write an internal elf linker. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
