[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC statusy

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Am 25.12.2012 15:11, schrieb Paul Ishenin:
>> 25.12.12, 21:59, Yury Sidorov ?????:
>>
>>> Hmm, Seems to be a false alarm :(
>>>
>>> I've made some tests just now with memory allocation and found that such
>>> pooling will not speed up the compiler too much. Only minor improvement
>>> such as 10-20% :(
>>
>> 10-20% is still much better than nothing.
> 
> Yes, but you might also pay with a higher memory footprint which might 
> even eat this speed advantage under certain circumstances.

If the memory footprint was less than was needed for the linkage stage 
would this matter?

Obviously this isn't comparing "like with like", since the compiler 
footprint would presumably be per-unit rather than for the entire 
program. But any realistic development system has to be prepared to 
allocate enough memory for linkage, 512Mb is realistic for building e.g. 
Lazarus so it's reasonable to argue that that space is also available 
for compilation.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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