[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> What I remember from windows 2000 is that FPC/ld/etc is several factors 
> slower on the same hardware as when run under Linux.

Afaik the internal linker is default on windows since 2.2.0 ?

There are still some issues with external .a archives, which is why the
makefiles afaik enable the external linker for the textmode IDE (libgdb)