[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.2 - Delphi 7

[Martin Schreiber]

On Thursday 05 July 2007 09.58, Daniël Mantione wrote:
> Op Thu, 5 Jul 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> > 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.
>
> Well, now that you have MSEIDE working with FPC 2.2, you can switch to
> compiling without -B again.
>
Crashes without -B happen with FPC 2.2 too.