[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Henry Vermaak]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:23:32PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
> > >> Better parallize the building using some build units. Then it will be
> > >> probably compiled in less than 10 sec on a modern CPU.
> > >
> > > Better paralellize the compiler :-)
> > 
> > In theory yes but I still fear that the threadvars and synchronization 
> > eats much of the advantage in this case.
> 
> I don't see why there would be more synchronization overhead than make?

So why not keep it simple and let the build system handle parallel jobs?

Henry