[fpc-pascal] Kudos to the FPC team

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:09, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know I'm sometimes hard on some developers. I guess sometimes one has
> to sit back and see the big picture too. While reading the following
> text from the OpenWatcom newsgroups, it made me realize what a great
> compiler and programming language we are using.
>
> A big thanks to the FPC team for making a GREAT compiler... and without
> compile times as listed below:
>

If that the reason you like FPC, then something is wrong :P
Try to compile any C++ program using g++, and you'll figure it out yourself.

I love FPC (and also join the Kudos) because they create a great advanced
open source compiler without any commercial help (unlike gcc for example)
and still have a product that can really compete with everything else, and
most of the time even win :)



>
>
> ------[ from a recent post in the OpenWatcom newsgroups ]---------
>
> To give you a time schedule, my old Pentium 500MHZ took 12 hours for a
> complete build, now with quadcore 2,5 Ghz it is less than 1 hour. This
> is without docbuild.


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> :-)
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> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>

Ido


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