[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.2 - Delphi 7

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> On Thursday 05 July 2007 09.02, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >
> > And as for Delphi being fast - well, my daytime job projects require
> > several minutes for Delphi to crunch through them. I've had Delphi hang up
> > on me more than once for 15 minutes on simple projects with complex
> > dependencies... All depends on what you throw at it. I haven't seen that
> > happening with FPC yet. It's slower, yes, but it's more consistent in it's
> > slowness.
> >
> My experience is that FPC often crashes if not called with -B. And that is the 
> reason why compile speed of FPC is important now. If I change one line in a 
> unit I often have to compile the whole MSEgui to run the program again.

In that case the crash should be fixed. Speed will not be fixed...
See the mail of Florian.

Michael.