[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

[Martin Schreiber]

On Saturday, 11. September 2010 12.25:14 Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote:
> > One would think Delphi and FPC need the same disk IO?
>
> I read the threads. My guess is also that the slowness comes from searching
> and writing many files in big directory structures. It is slow even if the
> files are cached. Also starting a new process is slow.
> These OS kernel tasks are difficult to measure and process monitors don't
> give reliable results.
>
> Suggestion:
> Create an API for integrating FPC with IDEs and special "make" programs.
> The API would pass info about exact file names and locations.
> It could also pass the whole source memory buffers.
>
And why does the Delphi commandline compiler (dcc32) not need this IDE 
assistance?

Martin