On 30/09/13 17:33, m...@rpzdesign.com wrote: > Linux Fedora 14 x64 fully boots from power on in 30 seconds.
Umm, my Ubuntu 12.04 used to boot in around 8 seconds from power on. I used a 450MB/s read/write SSD drive with an i7 CPU. :) These days boot times don't mean much to me, as my FreeBSD system [my development machine] runs 24/7. As for Delphi vs FPC compiling speed. The newer Delphi compilers are slower than D5 & D7... Why? Because those old Delphi compilers only targeted one platform, and they could optimise the crap out of it because they hand no cross-platform worries. FPC is written with easy maintenance and extensibility in mind. So obviously you will take a small performance hit. I think that is a reasonable trade-off. Either way, I still don't think FPC is slow - compared to other compilers like GCC, Java etc. Also, 90% of the time FPC only needs to compile the actual units that changed - while you are developing your project. So in such cases, I think compile time is nice and fast. Just my 2ยข worth. Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal