Paul Davidson wrote:
Morning.
Several months ago someone on this list mentioned that GPC was slower than other Pascal compilers.
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I think you missed the main point: GPC generates very fast code. So GPC compiled program run fast. The complaint is that GPC uses a lot of time to compile a program.
For poeple who want to know what GPC is doing: instead of guessing just give '--time-report' option to gpc. It will tell you which "passes" take most time. FYI, on i386 Linux typically with no optimisation about 30% is spent in front-end (reported as 'parser') and the rest is spent in the back-end. With optimisation and also when compiling for other processsors time spent in the back-end grows.
__ Waldek Hebisch hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl or hebisch@hera.math.uni.wroc.pl