[fpc-devel] Less global variables

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Andrew Brunner schrieb:
> 2010/10/9 Adem <listmember at letterboxes.org>:
>> Would you consider turning those structured types into objects?
>>
>> Properties with getter/setter pairs would make tracing (placing a breakpoint
>> in the getter/sertter would help identify the caller) easier.
> 
> The only problem with that line of thinking is that every time your
> are calling that variable you are adding the extra steps.  This is
> impeding on performance of both compiling and maybe even execution.

Inlining the getters should not add much overhead. I don't feel that 
compilation is slower with the moved variables, on my x86 box, but 
perhaps somebody can benchmark that more precisely, and on other 
architectures.

DoDi