On 30 Jan 2011, at 12:37, Martin Schreiber wrote: > I cry if FPC doesn't compile at least ten percent *faster* than the previous > release...
At least on Mac OS X/i386, we are pretty close to that currently as far as compiling the compiler with itself is concerned: * Compiling it with 2.4.2: user 0m7.663s sys 0m0.545s user 0m7.540s sys 0m0.535s user 0m7.527s sys 0m0.532s * Compiling it with 2.5.1: user 0m6.972s sys 0m0.451s user 0m6.967s sys 0m0.456s user 0m6.966s sys 0m0.456s The reason I'm specifically mentioning the used platform is that there's one new Mac OS X/i386-specific optimization in 2.5.1 (more efficient PIC trampolines, and PIC is enabled by default on that platform), although I cannot imagine that it would be completely (or even largely) responsible for an 8% speedup. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
