[fpc-devel] Win64 FPC is in wrong download location

[Jonas Maebe]

On 04 May 2010, at 16:01, Andrew Brunner wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> 
>> ... and why we do not do this *for Windows*.
> 
> I disagree. I think some thought should go into having a
> multi-threaded system for building projects.  If we had a dependency
> tree worker threads could transverse the tree and compile near
> instantly.  Having a linear compile for projects so 1980s.  With CPUs
> and memory on all new computers in the gig range... I say it's time to
> start thinking about commercial users :-)
> With a multi-threaded system for compiling and reporting status, I
> believe that native compilers would be completely justified...  But
> it's kinda like the chicken before the egg, again isn't it?  How
> ironic to say the least.

Cross-compilers can be just as multi-threaded as "native" ones. This is a completely orthogonal feature.


Jonas