[fpc-devel]Re [2]: Some more compiler problems

[Jonas Maebe]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Peter Vreman wrote:

> > But as Peter already said, the heap manager is very optimized. We got some
> > patches a couple of months ago to make it slightly faster (10% or so), but
> > I don't think they're already applied.
>
> Because the patches made the heapmanager exponantional slower. The compiler cycle took
> then about 5 minutes instead of 1 minute.
>
> It's always a speed versus size tradeoff...

Aren't we talking about different patches? I meant the ones that did the
merging (tryconcatfree) at allocation time instead of at freemem time. I
believe the submitter said those made the compilation of windows.pp a bit
faster.


Jonas