Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-30 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 26.04.2012 14:57, schrieb OBones: Jonas Maebe wrote: OBones wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2012: And because I have to split my generated files so that FPC does not hit the 2GB memory limit (which it does for a 15M source file) What is the structure of that source code? (a few giant routines, larg

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-26 Thread OBones
Jonas Maebe wrote: OBones wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2012: And because I have to split my generated files so that FPC does not hit the 2GB memory limit (which it does for a 15M source file) What is the structure of that source code? (a few giant routines, large constant arrays, ... ?) Thousands o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
OBones wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2012: And because I have to split my generated files so that FPC does not hit the 2GB memory limit (which it does for a 15M source file) What is the structure of that source code? (a few giant routines, large constant arrays, ... ?) Jonas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-23 Thread OBones
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:26:28 +0200 Florian Klaempfl wrote: Am 19.04.2012 14:11, schrieb OBones: I looked around in the documentation for "standard input", "pipe", but apart from ways to access them from within a program, I was not able to find any information. Is this

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/20/2012 14:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:26:28 +0200 Florian Klaempfl wrote: [...] Do you have any proof that writing/reading to the files to disk is an issue? On modern harddisks and OSes the plain I/O speed is normally not the issue when compiling. True. Lazarus m

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 4/19/2012 08:11, OBones wrote: Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Right no

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:26:28 +0200 Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Am 19.04.2012 14:11, schrieb OBones: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one > > producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. > > In front of it in the chain, I have designed a genera

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 19.04.2012 14:11, schrieb OBones: Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Right

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 19.04.2012 14:11, schrieb OBones: Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Right

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
OBones wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: Maybe you can create a ramdisk. Thank you for your answer. I have thought about that, but this would create deployment problems as there is no default ramdisk driver under Windows. Might be worth considering should performance become a really big issue.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread OBones
Mattias Gaertner wrote: Maybe you can create a ramdisk. Thank you for your answer. I have thought about that, but this would create deployment problems as there is no default ramdisk driver under Windows. Might be worth considering should performance become a really big issue. Regards ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread OBones
michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: It is currently not possible. FPC always reads from and writes to files. Fair enough, I'll have to deal with it then. Thank you for your answer ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:11:59 +0200 OBones wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one > producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. > In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a > program and a set of units from its

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, OBones wrote: Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Ri

[fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

2012-04-20 Thread OBones
Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Right now, the program and units are writ