[fpc-devel] The 15k bounty: Optimizing executable speed for Linux x86 / LLVM

[Simon Kissel]

Hi Sven,

> The thing is that we can't enable or disable a feature based on
> whether a program links third party libraries or a unit is included
> in a library or not, cause we might need to work with precompiled
> units. So either you'll need to enable this feature for a locally
> build FPC amd be aware that you can't really create libraries then
> or the feature needs to be implemented completely. 

For us it would be just fine to have custom FPC builds, we
do that anyway - we use CrossFPC built by bero to be able
to target a whole lot of platforms concurrently, including
inside the Delphi and Lazarus IDEs.

But of course it means far less other users would benefit.

Simon