[fpc-devel] TFPHashList (Was: Alternative parsers)

[Alexander Klenin]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:33, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 20.10.2010 12:27, schrieb Alexander Klenin:
>>
>> This sub-thread was started by mentioning the series of errors
>> my student made when trying to implement case of string.
>> Most of them was due to the fact the code used pchars and records
>> instead of strings and (hierarchy of) objects.
>> Surely, a more qualified developer would probably have avoided these,
>> but still I think this is a good demonstration of adverse side-effects
>> of micro-optimizations.
>
> FPC is a production compiler and not an educational project. See
> Martin's email, people care about the speed of FPC.

Surely I did not imply that lowering barrier for entry should be
the primary goal of the FPC project (although that would be a nice side-effect).
I meant to demonstrate that the current code structure encourages failure,
which, of course, may be overcome with enough effort by
highly-qualified developer.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin