[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Fri Aug 14 13:22:01 CEST 2009


Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 14 August 2009 08:55:07 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>> Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>>> > That's true. The general problem is not that the IDE is not
>>> > responsive when compiling/linking but that compiling/linking takes so
>>> > long.
>>>
>>> FPC is a fast compiler and more speed is obviously also nice.
>>
>> Last time I compared FPC and Delphi 7 Delphi was ten times faster.
>> Yes, more speed would be nice.
> 
> Yes, but Delphi 7 has 10 times less platforms to support, and 10 times
> more people for it's development, people working
> full time on nothing else than Delphi.
> 
> So where are the compiler geniuses, and the super patches to improve FPC ?

It probably requires to rewrite FPC completely :) FPC chooses always
maintainability and portability over speed and compared with gcc or even
VS, FPC is still fast ;)




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