Am 08.01.2018 08:50 schrieb "Ryan Joseph" <r...@thealchemistguild.com>:
I was talking with a c++ developer who explained how templates are implemented in c++ and how use some recursive method which causes them to totally murder compile times. This isn’t the first I’ve heard of the problem though and I recall some game studios who develop engines in c++ saying they are strictly off limits for the same reasons. Having just started to use generics in FPC myself I was curious if FPC suffers from the same problem of slow compile times? FPC essentially reparses a generic during specialization so I'd say that they definitely affect compile times. However we're still only doing a single pass of parsing. This while the compilation might be slower it might not be as bad as with a C++ compiler. As far as I know no one has done a benchmark for that however. Regards, Sven
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