[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday, 12. September 2010 10.12:59 Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> >
> > Agreed. My opinion is that before we start to implement difficult and
> > error-prone multi-threading into FPC we should find out why the hell
> > Delphi 7 can compile so much faster
>
> Because of the same reason why it seems to take years to port delphi to
> 64 bit: different design goals. It seems speed were the only design
> goal, nobody took care about maintainability or portability.

And that results in a discrepancy of factor 5..10? I can't believe it.

Martin