[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

[Dimitri Smits]

----- "Juha Manninen (gmail)" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> schreef:

> On Saturday 11 September 2010 13:40:26 Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > And why does the Delphi commandline compiler (dcc32) not need this
> IDE
> > assistance?
> 
> My guess is that dcc32 works as an integrated make program + compiler
> and thus 
> doesn't start external processes for each file.
> Or, if it starts an external process then it can use some (hidden)
> temporary 
> file with pre-scanned info of the project. So the compiler would only
> open one 
> "info" file instead of scanning the whole search paths.
> 
> I used the IDE always when working with Delphi and don't really know
> dcc32. 
> Guessing only.
> 

no, the bin directory of D7 is filled with extra .exe's (tlib, tasm32, ...) and the dcc32.exe is < 800K big.

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits