[fpc-devel] New less verbose compilation of trunk

[Henry Vermaak]

On 07/03/12 13:10, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 07 Mar 2012, at 12:29, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, cycling the compiler is taking really long and -j 9
>> isn't helping much (or at all).
>
> It can be sped up by adding proper unit dependency information in your
> platform's RTL Makefile.fpc, and then removing the .NOTPARALLEL. Except
> for the Darwin RTL, no RTL currently has proper dependency information.
> It also won't work for the Windows RTLs, because they use build units
> (which is another way to speed up things, although you can't take
> advantage of any parallelism in that case without modifying the compiler).

Thanks for the information.  Do you have benchmarks of the Darwin RTL 
compilation before and after adding the dependency information?

Henry