[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Henry Vermaak]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:05:22AM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 05.03.2013 10:58, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
> >On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> >>Sven Barth wrote:
> >>>Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> >>>>But on the other hand, if an application programmer could
> >>>>disable FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing
> >>>>to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the
> >>>>criticism coming from certain quarters.
> >>>>
> >>>Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself
> >>>as it would need to parse them.
> >>That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.
> >Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
> >the user doesn't have to do this.
> As this is something we (as in the FPC developers) don't need:
> patches are welcome.

I'm trying to ascertain if this is even possible (the c-style,
file-at-a-time compilation, using make to handle multiple processes).
Do you think it's possible, then?

I'm not ordering anyone to implement features, I'm exploring solutions
to the depressing fact that my c projects compile quicker than my fpc
projects (simply because my build system can launch parallel jobs).  I
don't think that turning fpc into a multi-threaded compiler is a sane
thing to do.

Henry