Hi, many thanks for the replies! I actually think most of the time is used by clang for assembling. If I can find out more precise details, I will let you know. And it is already a little bit faster on M1 than on my Intel.
Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software GmbH & Co. KG ---- On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:15:24 +0100 Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Am 21.11.2020 um 12:54 schrieb Tobias Giesen via fpc-pascal: > > > > According to Geekbench, the single core performance on the new Mac is > > around 1.8x as fast as my Intel Mac. Multicore is also much faster. I > > wonder why I don't see the speed increase in compiling though. Yes I am > > using different FPC and XCode versions, but I wonder what else could > > have an influence? My project is very large and not divided into > > packages, so I frequently need to recompile the whole project. > > Large parts of FPC are memory throughput limited so I suspect the M1 is not > that much better in this regard, not to > mention that most likely the AAarch code generator is worse than the x86 one. > x86 received a lot of work in this field. > > Maybe it's possible that you build using an LLVM compiler the FPC with native > backend. As I do not use macOS, I have no > clue how to do this though. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software GmbH & Co. KG Buddenstr. 29-31 48143 Münster, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Registered at register court Münster as HRA 9716 Liability / general partner: TGTools GmbH Registered at register court Münster as HRB 17763 Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Giesen _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
