[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Henry Vermaak]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > > 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?
> 
> I like autobuilding. IMHO that is a core attraction of unit based (modular)
> languages.
> 
> Manually maintaining dependencies between compilation units is stone-age.

I just add all the objects to a variable in a Makefile.

The result is that I have a 27000 line c library that compiles in *half*
the time it takes to compile a 4000 line lazarus program because my c
lib can be built with make -j 9.

Henry