[fpc-pascal] Lazarus and FPC integration

[Florian Klaempfl]

Agustin Barto wrote:

 > a) Unicode didn't work for me on any (including the lastest) version
 > of Lazarus. I don't know if this is a bug related to my particular
 > enviroment (x86/FC4) or a limitation of the code editor.

Unicode can mean a lot?

> b) When I really needed the multiplatform feature of Lazarus, I
> couldn't get the UI to look the same on Windows and Linux. I had some
> serious layout problems. The speed wasn't the same either.

You have to use panels and give up absolute layouts they won't work 
cross platform.

> 
> c) My capstone project did some pretty intensive numerical computing.
> On Delphi it behaved reasonably good. The binaries compiled with fpc
> where OpenOffice.org 2.0 slow! even with aggressive non-portable
> optimizations (obviously this isn't lazarus problem).

I still want to see the code which with slower with fpc 2.0 than with 
Delphi :) A lot of people say so, nobody was able yet to show me real 
code :)))