On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Phil Hess wrote:
----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[email protected]> wrote:
The subtext is that with Delphi you can pull off the hat trick of a
2.3 million line app that sells for big bucks and where the client
does not tolerate bugs or instabilities or excuses. Can anyone make
that claim for Lazarus?
Well, our application is not quite that big, sitting around 300,000
lines of code at the moment. Our product also sells well (I'm still
employed <wink>), and has an install base of over 15,000 computers.
So
yeah, I don't think we are doing to bad considering we are not using
a
commercial product like Delphi, but rather open source software like
FPC
and Lazarus.
Well, I guess you can say you're within an order of magnitude of that 2.3
million lines.
By the way, Delphi 2010 compiles that 2.3 million lines of code in 70 seconds,
including linking and creating a map file.
Strange.
It takes longer to compile my work project, which is around 700.000 lines.
It takes up to 5 minutes to compile on any reasonable new computer.
Just to say:
Giving such numbers is quite dangerous, because It all depends on the
file layout, number of packages and whatnot.
For fun, I created a small program that creates program code for 2.3 million
lines
distributed over 460 units (approx 6000 lines per unit), and a program that
calls a
routine from each unit.
The 64-bit compiler compiles it all in 1m53s. Given that the 32-bit compiler is much
faster than the 64-bit one, I think it's close to a tie with Delphi.
Michael.
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