[fpc-devel] Why/how does the compiler have a non-trivial number ofmemory leaks after over two decades of development?

R0b0t1 r030t1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 17:29:27 CEST 2018


On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Martok <listbox at martoks-place.de> wrote:
> Am 30.07.2018 um 14:24 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos:
>> Is performance more important than being correct?  :|
> In this project, the answer is always taken to be yes.
>

To hopefully offer some explanation for Mr. Santos - if I can compile
and run the program 5 times over the course of 20 minutes, that is
certainly better than running it and testing it once over the same
amount of time, no?

It might be hard to imagine FPC taking that much longer than it does
currently but ~30min for a large program is the standard with other
compilers. I very much enjoy the speed of FPC.



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