[fpc-devel] Messages overhead

[Florian Klaempfl]

Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
> Daniël Mantione schrieb:
> 
>>> IMO compiler messages slow down compilation a lot.
>>
>> How do you know this, did you benchmark or is it just your opinion?
> 
> Common knowledge, proved by experience.

Please profile the compiler first, people did this already.

> The message ID has to be re-encoded in a way, that allows to determine
> e.g. the message level immediately. All this currently is done only
> after text substitution, by inspection of the returned string.

This cannot be done because people should have the chance to use custom
error files to override message verbosities.