[fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

[Florian Klaempfl]

Sasa Zeman wrote:
> Regarding division problem. Florian was precise in explanation (suggested to
> be part of documentation).
> 
>> I think even _if_ there is a focus on getting the memusage down (and there
>> is, it is one of the internal linkers objectives), it should be more to
> let
>> Lazarus perform optimally with say 512-1024MB memory, and not to try to
>> squeeze it into sub 128 MB. That would be counterproductive.
> 
> Inside total phisical memory of 128MB, Delphi compililation is very fast.
> That mean that process of compilation is optimized to work with available
> phisical memory (at least under 128MB). The same is case with command line
> compiler (dcc32).  I doubt it is contra-productive, on the contrary. 

It is probably: it seems that delphi compiler source is completely
unmaintainable and unportable else they would have developed it much faster.

> Any
> attempt to work with swapfile lead to enormous performance decreasing, which
> is currently case.
> 
> During building Lazarus, peak of used memory by compiler is over 85MB. As
> well, 192MB of minimum reserved virtual memory by Windows is often too
> small. All indicate that optimization of the compiling and internal linking
> process should be one of the top priority.

Today, 1 GB of RAM cost 70 Eur, the 256 MB necessary for usable fpc are
at 20 Eur, so memory usage has no real priority anymore for the current
fpc developers. Since we have limited time, maintainability has highest
priority followed by portability and speed.

> 
> In my opinion, FPC and Lazarus can try to ratioinally use available
> resources, not to force developers or company to buy new hardware. Note that
> many companies still work with relatively old hardware and they are not
> willing for further investments (often mean replacement old hardware with
> new).

Then they have to spent time into optimizing fpc regarding memory usage ;)