[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:34:37 +0100
Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 04 March 2013 15:19:56 Tomas Hajny wrote:
> > >
> > > Any idea, why FPC Linux is slower than FPC Windows?
> > > Loading and highlighting does not sound like a task where many OS calls
> > > are involved.
> >
> > Is the "starting MSEide" (as mentioned above) bit included in the measured
> > time? That would probably imply quite some OS calls, of course...
> >
> Yes. The time is from pressing enter with "mseide" respective "mseidefp" on 
> the the commandline until the last line of MacOSAll.pas from FPC 2.4.0 in the 
> source editor window is colored. MSEide first shows the file without colors 
> and does the highlighting in background if main event loop is idle.

And how much time is spent on the highlighting on Linux
and Windows?

Mattias