[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Martin Schreiber]

On Saturday 02 March 2013 11:28:25 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:52:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >> Anyway, what seems obvious from your numbers is that it is the linking
> >> stage that needs speedup. This does not really come as a surprise.
> >
> > On Windows FPC linking time of MSEide is about 2-3 seconds IIRC, I'll
> > check it later, currently I try to make MSEide+MSEgui Kylix3 compatible
> > so we have a benchmark on Linux too.
>
> When you do, please send me the output of a strace -f
>
I will take a while because it is much work to make the code both FPC and 
Delphi/Kylix compatible.

> It will allow me to see what IO the Delphi/Kylix compiler does.
>
> We can say for sure that the fact you use .pas as filename extension
> will cause FPC to do twice the number of stat() calls, because .pp is
> searched first...Logical therefore that the IO is slower.
>
AFAIK "*.pas" is Delphi compatible? ;-)

Martin