[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

[Martin Schreiber]

On Friday 10 September 2010 17:43:59 Adem wrote:
> Sometime ago, there was a brief mention of multi-threading FPC would be
> counter productive because compilation process was mostly disk IO bound
> --this is what I understood anyway.
>
> I wanted to check to see if disk IO was really limiting FPC/Lazarus
> compile performance.
>
Interesting is that Delphi 7 compiles about 10 times faster than FPC on the 
same machine.
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg08029.html
Results with more code and FPC 2.4:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.mseide.user/18797
One would think Delphi and FPC need the same disk IO?

Martin