[fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 8 May 2009 14:35:52 -0300
Gustavo Enrique Jimenez <gejimenez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nino:
> 
>  I am using FPC since 2000-2001. I use it for data aquisition and
> temperature control. Console programs compiled with FPC 1.x work for
> days, even weeks. In the "Laboratorio de Física del Sólido, Tucumán -
> Argentina" (Solid state physics laboratory) we have used programs
> compiled with FPC to grow YBACuO superconductor crystals. This process
> take weeks.
>  This heat treatment is the only "mission critical application" that I
> know well, and FPC works reliably, even for weeks, on linux machines.

Some of my fpc programs run for months on linux clusters and some multi threaded daemons on OS X til reboot. 
So far: No long time crashes or mem leaks.

But I second Jonas mail: Before you run an fpc program in a
zero-tolerance environment, you have to test a lot of things, because a
lot of code was not written with zero-tolerance in mind.

Mattias