Am 12.09.2010 07:33, schrieb Martin Schreiber: > On Saturday, 11. September 2010 21.10:20 Florian Klämpfl wrote: >> >> Anyways, before this ends in an endless discussion: if anybody is >> interested in improving FPC compilation speed (for my needs is >> sufficient) and have a look at fillchar and, have a look at FPC's unit >> loading algorithm (not the actual i/o itself but how all the symbols >> classes etc. are restored). This two points are bottlenecks which might >> help when they are improved, though it's pretty unlikely that this will >> improve things more than a few percent. > > Agreed. My opinion is that before we start to implement difficult and > error-prone multi-threading into FPC we should find out why the hell Delphi 7 > can compile so much faster
Because of the same reason why it seems to take years to port delphi to 64 bit: different design goals. It seems speed were the only design goal, nobody took care about maintainability or portability. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel