Am 12.09.2010 10:21, schrieb Martin Schreiber: > On Sunday, 12. September 2010 10.12:59 Florian Klämpfl wrote: >>> >>> Agreed. My opinion is that before we start to implement difficult and >>> error-prone multi-threading into FPC we should find out why the hell >>> Delphi 7 can compile so much faster >> >> Because of the same reason why it seems to take years to port delphi to >> 64 bit: different design goals. It seems speed were the only design >> goal, nobody took care about maintainability or portability. > > And that results in a discrepancy of factor 5..10? I can't believe it.
Digging out 1.0.10 and using some extreme example: C:\fpc\tests\webtbs>"c:\pp 1.0.10\bin\win32\ppc386.exe" tw2242 -O2 Free Pascal Compiler version 1.0.10 [2003/06/27] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2003 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Win32 for i386 Compiling tw2242.pp Linking tw2242.exe 13083 Lines compiled, 0.8 sec C:\fpc\tests\webtbs>fpc tw2242 -O2 Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.0 [2009/12/18] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2009 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Win32 for i386 Compiling tw2242.pp Linking tw2242.exe 13083 lines compiled, 4.7 sec , 301376 bytes code, 1864 bytes data _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
