[fpc-devel] Messages overhead

[Florian Klaempfl]

Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
> 
> I think that it's time to put aside old experience, and replace it by
> up-to-date performance considerations. And since FPC seems to be
> optimized and tested very well, even if it doesn't look so at the first
> glance, I better concentrate on other tasks.
> 

One of the bottlenecks the common user encounters, is unit loading:
especially projects like the lazarus suffer from the time spent into
unit loading while I suspect that it narrows down also to procedures
like fillchar which consume a lot of time.