[fpc-devel] Why/how does the compiler have a non-trivial number ofmemory leaks after over two decades of development?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, R0b0t1 wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Martok <listbox at martoks-place.de> wrote:
>> Am 30.07.2018 um 14:24 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos:
>>> Is performance more important than being correct?  :|
>> In this project, the answer is always taken to be yes.
>>
>
> To hopefully offer some explanation for Mr. Santos - if I can compile
> and run the program 5 times over the course of 20 minutes, that is
> certainly better than running it and testing it once over the same
> amount of time, no?
>
> It might be hard to imagine FPC taking that much longer than it does
> currently but ~30min for a large program is the standard with other
> compilers. I very much enjoy the speed of FPC.

30 *Minutes*, is this real ?

Hm. I just complained to a component provider because Delphi takes 25 seconds to 
compile my program with the way they set up their paths...

Michael.