[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

Martin Schreiber mse00000 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 07:33:55 CEST 2010


On Saturday, 11. September 2010 21.10:20 Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>
> Anyways, before this ends in an endless discussion: if anybody is
> interested in improving FPC compilation speed (for my needs is
> sufficient) and have a look at fillchar and, have a look at FPC's unit
> loading algorithm (not the actual i/o itself but how all the symbols
> classes etc. are restored). This two points are bottlenecks which might
> help when they are improved, though it's pretty unlikely that this will
> improve things more than a few percent.

Agreed. My opinion is that before we start to implement difficult and 
error-prone multi-threading into FPC we should find out why the hell Delphi 7 
can compile so much faster and produces even better code?

Martin



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