[Lazarus] Delphi wxWidget plugin for Lazarus

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, svaa wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> By the way,  Watching the demo I can see that Lazarus compiles (or 
> complies and links) very slow compared to codegear. And it is just 
> "hello world" program.
> I have always felt the Lazarus was a little slow, but this demo has 
> shown it clearly. In codegear, the click run pops a progress message for 
> an instant and displays the application running, in Lazarus he has to 
> wait several seconds to see the form running.
> 
> Do you have any clue of such a difference of performance?

This is a FAQ since day 1, I think :-)

Delphi works with the compiler in-memory, as a DLL. 
Lazarus has an external compiler, and often the compiler even calls an external linker.

This is a price you pay for a cross-platform solution.

Michael.