At 17:22 19-4-2006, you wrote:
> L505 wrote:
> >> MSEgui has a distinct advantage over Lazarus. It compiles under Delphi.
Just
> >> tried it. Fiddled with one or two lines in the code, but I got the
IDE to
> >> compile and run and then built a small hello world app that also ran.
Pretty
> >> impressive really.
> >
> > And the exe's/elf's it generates are reasonable in size. Going to
check it
out
> > today, again.
>
> Smaller than FPC ? That shouldn't differ too much, I think.
I mean smaller than lazarus generated ones.
BTW How does borland put the debug info into the exe without increasing
the exe
size? Not to mention, there is no such thing as a smartlinking option in my
delphi compiler. They just assume you always need smartlinking - why would you
not need it. As for how their compiler/linker is so fast with smartlinking on
and debugging on... mystery.
Linking stabs debugging is slow. Every .stab section must be merged and
updated. Compare the linking time differences with linking lazarus.exe
(50Mb of stabs) with -Xi and with -Xis.
In the future fpc will use dwarf and the size will me much lower and
linking will be faster. But we are partly dependent on the debugger (gdb)
to support it. At least the standard is enough to implement all pascal
features. But for example gdb only implements what is needed for C/C++.
Peter
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