[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC statusy

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 25.12.2012 15:28, schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:55:41 +0100 (CET)
> marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> The numbers Martin names (up till 10 times slower, even without linking) are
>> the numbers I have in mind too. IMHO denial without tests is unfair.
>
> Maybe the parallelization could be improved?

Yes, this might be a good solution for the future but last time this 
topic came up, Martin still wanted to run FPC on some almost 10 years 
old machine so parallelization does not help. Another thing would be an 
fpc compiler daemon which stays in memory between compilations and keeps 
also ppus loaded.

> This would allow to keep
> the many features of fpc.
>
>
>> I had a setup where I compiled zeos with FPC and Delphi (which doesn't
>> link), and iirc the results were also 7-10times, with delphi XE.
>>
>> When I'm home after Christmas I'll play a bit and see if I can duplicate the
>> experiments with Delphi XE3.
>
>
> Mattias
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