[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday 03 March 2013 08:12:28 Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Saturday 02 March 2013 11:28:25 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > > On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:52:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > >> Anyway, what seems obvious from your numbers is that it is the linking
> > >> stage that needs speedup. This does not really come as a surprise.
> > >
> > > On Windows FPC linking time of MSEide is about 2-3 seconds IIRC, I'll
> > > check it later, currently I try to make MSEide+MSEgui Kylix3 compatible
> > > so we have a benchmark on Linux too.
> >
> > When you do, please send me the output of a strace -f
>
> I will take a while because it is much work to make the code both FPC and
> Delphi/Kylix compatible.
>
BTW, a significant percentage of the time is waiting for FPC compiling because 
FPC normally crashes without -B.

Martin