Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Martin Schreiber wrote: > >> On Friday 14 August 2009 08:55:07 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >>> Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >>> > That's true. The general problem is not that the IDE is not >>> > responsive when compiling/linking but that compiling/linking takes so >>> > long. >>> >>> FPC is a fast compiler and more speed is obviously also nice. >> >> Last time I compared FPC and Delphi 7 Delphi was ten times faster. >> Yes, more speed would be nice. > > Yes, but Delphi 7 has 10 times less platforms to support, and 10 times > more people for it's development, people working > full time on nothing else than Delphi. > > So where are the compiler geniuses, and the super patches to improve FPC ?
It probably requires to rewrite FPC completely :) FPC chooses always maintainability and portability over speed and compared with gcc or even VS, FPC is still fast ;) -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus