[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Vittorio Giovara]

On 04/mar/2013, at 00:21, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-03-03 19:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>>>
>>> First 10 m of a marathon done.
>>
>>
>> Is that 'miles' or 'meters'?  ;-)
>
> Sad. Instead of "fight", why not walking together?
>
> IMHO Martin Schreiber is doing a great job using these comparisons and
> some improvements could be made in FPC... but he is making a mistake
> in their approach of how to present FPC's "defects".

I am not so sure about this... I know nothing of dcc switches but he
is comparing the compiler speed with a different set of features, it
is easy to spot how flawed the comparison is: -O2 -Xg -Xs are all
optimization flags and it is expected that optimizing code takes time.

Could be interesting to see the speed and size of the binary produced
by the two compilers, slower compilation time over faster or smaller
code is something I would pick any time!

> FPC Team:
> Try to hear Martin otherwise, because he is a great developer with great ideas.

I am no fpc dev here, but patches are welcome I guess.

Jm2c
Vittorio