Am 07.05.2021 um 17:40 schrieb Benito van der Zander via fpc-devel:
The introduction of generics and their abundant use in Delphi has
noticably slowed down the compiler and increased binary sizes. To my
dismay, compile times of 20 seconds up to 2 minutes have become not
uncommon in Delphi. Something almmost unthinkable in D7 days.
With these generics they copied all the problems of C++. One of the
worst ways of doing that
It would have been better to implement them like dynamic arrays. The
generic code gets RTTI, the specialization does not generate any code,
and just avoids explicit casting.
That would also be a much less flexible approach. The way it is now
allows for much more functionality to be covered with generics.
Regards,
Sven
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