Jonas Maebe пишет:
On 11 Sep 2010, at 12:23, Martin Schreiber wrote:
or it isn't true that FPC bottleneck is disk IO. Are we absolutely sure about
the bottleneck?
I'm quite certain that there are many reasons that FPC compiles more slowly than Delphi.
The bottlenecks probably also vary from platform to platform and from compilation
scenario to compilation scenario. I'm quite sure there is not a single thing you can
"fix" and suddenly get compilation speeds in the same ballpark as Delphi 7 (how
does the compilation speed of current Delphi's compare to Delphi 7 btw? I read that
Delphi XE compiles much faster than Delphi 2010 in some cases, but I did not see
comparisons to Delphi 7).
One thing that could be done is adding a linear scan register allocator (it
would result in slightly worse code than the current register colouring, but it
executes more quickly).
Going further, general restructuring of the compiler for compilation speed
reasons would only be acceptable if it does not negatively impact the
maintainability. There is a reason why we can support 6 architectures and
umpteen OSes in the compiler with only a handful of people.
One idea that comes at this point is to put PPU data directly into object files, so the number of
output files is reduced plain twice. The PPU data could be placed into a section that is ignored by
linker. However I don't know is this is possible for all platforms.
Regards,
Sergei
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