On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:05:22AM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 05.03.2013 10:58, schrieb Henry Vermaak: > >On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>Sven Barth wrote: > >>>Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: > >>>>But on the other hand, if an application programmer could > >>>>disable FPC's unit handling and use make -j instead, choosing > >>>>to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the > >>>>criticism coming from certain quarters. > >>>> > >>>Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself > >>>as it would need to parse them. > >>That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC. > >Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that > >the user doesn't have to do this. > As this is something we (as in the FPC developers) don't need: > patches are welcome.
I'm trying to ascertain if this is even possible (the c-style, file-at-a-time compilation, using make to handle multiple processes). Do you think it's possible, then? I'm not ordering anyone to implement features, I'm exploring solutions to the depressing fact that my c projects compile quicker than my fpc projects (simply because my build system can launch parallel jobs). I don't think that turning fpc into a multi-threaded compiler is a sane thing to do. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel