In our previous episode, Adem said: > I wanted to check to see if disk IO was really limiting FPC/Lazarus > compile performance.
> The only quick way I could devise to check this was to use two different > disks which are significantly different from one another in terms of > performance. Both are atypical memory technology based devices which probably have low seeking times, compared to harddisks. With the total FPC/Lazarus sources being in the magnitude of 100MB, this should be logical, doing this test that is based on raw read/write bandwidth is not even necessary to determine that the bottleneck is not raw read/write performance. This becasue even a harddisk budget model still does 80-100MB/s, and overall building is not in the 1-2s magnitude. The I/O bottleneck is thus more the searching and opening of files, as well, on Windows, executing programs. (.exe's) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel