In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said: > > One must keep in mind though that he probably measures on a *nix, and there > > is a reason why on Windows the make cycle takes twice the time on Windows. > > One of these issues are memory mapped files, that can speed up file > access a lot (I've been told), perhaps because it maps directly to the > system file cache?
As said, I always had the feeling that it was binary startup time, and directory I/O rather than basic blockwrite/read speed. Most files are tens of kbs max, and will probably be read entirely anyway by the system. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel