Am 11.09.2010 22:04, schrieb Jonas Maebe: > > On 11 Sep 2010, at 21:10, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > >> Anyways, before this ends in an endless discussion: if anybody is >> interested in improving FPC compilation speed (for my needs is >> sufficient) and have a look at fillchar and, have a look at FPC's >> unit loading algorithm (not the actual i/o itself but how all the >> symbols classes etc. are restored). This two points are bottlenecks >> which might help when they are improved, though it's pretty >> unlikely that this will improve things more than a few percent. > > Note that in 2.5.1 it will already be somewhat faster because of > r15604 (removes a lot of calls to fillchar from the register > allocator) and r15515 (optimizations to sysfreemem_fixed).
True, but at least I fear the generic i386 fillchar is slower than the MacOSX system routine __bzero. But I agree also that there won't be a big improvement by improving fillchar. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
