Roadmap questions
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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Stephano · 2007-04-19 20:34

What is the current status of the following features:
1- Internal linker
2- Dynamic packages (a la Delphi way)
3- Visual form inheritance
4- TIcon implementation

What should the approximate compile & link time be for a form with a
single button (that does nothing)? I just want to check if there is
something wrong with my setup: 10 seconds on a 3GHz/1GB RAM Windows
machine from the time I press the run button until the form pops up.

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felipemdc · 2007-04-19 21:40

Quote from: "Stephano"What is the current status of the following
features:
1- Internal linker

Done. But it´s not on the 2.0.4 compiler, it´s only on the 2.2
compiler which is on stabilization phase now.

> 2- Dynamic packages (a la Delphi way)

I think there was some sucess with that, but it´s not functional yet

> 3- Visual form inheritance

Someone already posted a bounty for this, however things doesn´t seam
to have improved much

> 4- TIcon implementation

Still not implemented

QuoteWhat should the approximate compile & link time be for a form
with a single button (that does nothing)? I just want to check if
there is something wrong with my setup: 10 seconds on a 3GHz/1GB RAM
Windows machine from the time I press the run button until the form
pops up.

That´s correct. It´s really slow on Windows. On Linux it should be
maybe 1 or 2 seconds the full time. But it should be much faster on
windows if one uses the internal linker, but then again it doesn´t
exist on 2.0.4, only on 2.2 which is on stabilization phase for the
release.

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felipemdc · 2007-04-19 21:45

Ah, of course, the standard disclaimer: If you need any of the non-
implemented things urgently I suggest that you either submit a patch
or create a bounty =)

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Stephano · 2007-04-19 23:47

Thx for the standard disclaimer tip
Seriously speaking, I had submitted a few minor patches that fall
within my limited understanding of the internals of Lazarus... my 2
cents contribution to a great project.

As for compilation and link time, I had tried on a Linux box
1GHz/256MB RAM, and IIRC it took almost as long. I should double check
that though.

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felipemdc · 2007-04-20 04:40

Quote from: "Stephano"As for compilation and link time, I had tried on
a Linux box 1GHz/256MB RAM, and IIRC it took almost as long. I should
double check that though.

Well, you are saying that on a 1GHz/256 ram machine on linux it was a
little faster then with 3GHz/1GB RAM on windows.

So, isn´t it much quicker on linux? Because the machine is so much
better for windows.

I have a 1GHz/256ram notebook and on windows the full process takes 30
seconds. On linux it´s 5 seconds or less. (same computer)

Ah, and lot´s of people think this because they are used to Delphi,
which is fastest compiler/linker package I have ever seen.

If you programmed on c++ before you will think that Lazarus is quite
fast =) Really, medium sized software on c++ takes up to half an hour
to compile! Now, that´s slow!!!