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Kudos to the FPC team

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

I know I'm sometimes hard on some developers. I guess sometimes one has to sit back and see the big picture too. While reading the following text from the OpenWatcom newsgroups, it made me realize what a great compiler and programming language we are using.

A big thanks to the FPC team for making a GREAT compiler... and without compile times as listed below:

------[ from a recent post in the OpenWatcom newsgroups ]---------

To give you a time schedule, my old Pentium 500MHZ took 12 hours for a complete build, now with quadcore 2,5 Ghz it is less than 1 hour. This is without docbuild.

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:-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

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ik
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 10 lines
Hi, I know I'm sometimes hard on some developers. I guess sometimes one has to sit back and see the big picture too. While reading the following text from the OpenWatcom newsgroups, it made me realize what a great compiler and programming language we are using. A big thanks to the FPC team for making a GREAT compiler... and without compile times as listed below:

If that the reason you like FPC, then something is wrong :P Try to compile any C++ program using g++, and you'll figure it out yourself.

I love FPC (and also join the Kudos) because they create a great advanced open source compiler without any commercial help (unlike gcc for example) and still have a product that can really compete with everything else, and most of the time even win :)

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------[ from a recent post in the OpenWatcom newsgroups ]--------- To give you a time schedule, my old Pentium 500MHZ took 12 hours for a complete build, now with quadcore 2,5 Ghz it is less than 1 hour. This is without docbuild.
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-- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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ik wrote
If that the reason you like FPC, then something is wrong :P

Clearly you didn't pay enough attention while reading his post and missinterpreted it.

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

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leledumbo
to ik: If that the reason you like FPC, then something is wrong :P Try to compile any C++…
If that the reason you like FPC, then something is wrong :P

Having a FAST compile time is one of the reason I like FPC (or any Pascal compiler in general, most of them also compiles fast).

Try to compile any C++ program using g++, and you'll figure it out yourself.

Yup, 40 minutes bootstrap just for compiler and standard libraries. FPC (wpo-ed + packages) + Lazarus takes only 15 minutes. I've figured it out that FPC is MUCH FASTER to build ;)

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