On Tuesday, 19. October 2010 16.42:19 Alexander Klenin wrote: > > Do you remember the factor 10 compiling speed advangage of Delphi7 > > compared with FPC 2.4? > > http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg19068.html > > I do. I also remember that one of the goals of DoDi's previous set of > refactorings > was to address that discrepancy. > And since they were rejected, FPC will continue to be slower than Delphi. > This is a typical showcase for the premature micro-optimization -- > for a few percentages of speed in the short term, > you pay in reduced code maintainability, > which precludes high-level optimizations in the long term.
IIRC one of the goals are to enable muti threaded compiling. I have a horror from that scenario. It is difficult enough to produce a stable single threaded compiler. I can't believe that it is possible to make a good multi core aware compiler without a team of highest skilled fulltime developers working several years... Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel