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

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > Any idea, why FPC Linux is slower than FPC Windows?
> > Loading and highlighting does not sound like a task where many OS calls
> > are involved.
> 
> Codepage conversions, most likely: Martin uses UTF-16 everywhere.
> On Windows, FPC uses the native support for UTF-16.
> Not exactly sure what happens on Linux.
> 
> Another source of slow-down may be file search: Windows ignores case. 
> Linux does not -> depending on what you do, you need to search 3 times more files.

Or more codegenerating related, PIC costs a register?