[fpc-devel] NoGlobals branch

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:

>> It is not yet clear, however, whether the
>> parser or entire modules can be destroyed before the end of compilation
>> - if memory requirements are of interest at all.
> 
> I don't think that a parser and a scanner instance will take much memory?

That depends mostly on the related objects (symbol tables...). It's not 
yet clear to me, what the many tables belong to.


>> Nonetheless many assumptions have to be corrected or specified, like a
>> compile_level doesn't make sense in a threaded compilation. 
> 
> Why not?

How would you count an level, when multiple concurrent parser threads 
create further threads concurrently?


>> I also found an simple workaround for the TImplementedInterfaces
>> problems (getcopy), that can be moved into the trunk immediately.
> 
> Which commit is it?

Please see the log, it might be my second last commit.

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