Hi, Some numbers about the MSEide exes compiled as testcase in http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg19068.html
System: win2000, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB RAM Delphi 7 FPC Exe size: 3131392 3689304 Code: 2128524 2138240 Data: 752085 1541256 Startuptime inclusive loading of 42 forms: Delphi 1.0s FPC 1.19s 20'000 unicode find/replace with big overhead in editor component: Delphi: 2.8s FPC 2.7s (Delphi uses OLE-WideString, FPC uses reference counted UnicodeString) 10'000 Ctrl+LeftClick symbol lookups: Delphi 2.6s FPC 3.2s Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel