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user382591
user382591

Reputation: 1390

Parallel build/compilation task for Delphi 7

compiling my project in my Virtual Machine takes a huge amount of time and only use 25% of my processor (1 core out of 4) because the build process does not use parallel build tasks.

Is it possible under Delphi 7 to have parallel build tasks?

Have a look here for details : VMware Player VM - 1 core CPU limitation

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1041

Answers (4)

Chau Chee Yang
Chau Chee Yang

Reputation: 19610

If you have a group of projects or a project group contains many projects. Analyse the project dependencies (e.g.: requires clause in .dpk file) and build a dependencies relations structure, then build your projects by batches to utilize the CPU core. It shall improve build speed dramatically depends on number of CPU cores you have.

Try https://github.com/ccy/msbuild.delphi.parallel

Upvotes: 0

JensG
JensG

Reputation: 13411

It is possible to compile multiple projects(!) in parallel, but this requires setting up your own build process.

There is no built-in solution or Add-On that I'm aware of 1), and without digging deeper into that stuff, I'd suspect one is lost simply because of the black box "compiler". That's something LLVM and Roslyn etc. are going to change, a still ongoing process.

One question is, how long does it take to become true mainstream. Another question is, how long it will take Emba to either open their black box, or at least implement such a feature into the compiler. Thinking about 64 bits, we will have to wait a few more years until they recognize that people usually have multiple cores in their CPUs these days.

And yet another question is, how big the market for Delphi 7-specific solutions really is today ...

1) That does not mean that there can't exist any. I just don't know it.

Upvotes: 2

Wouter van Nifterick
Wouter van Nifterick

Reputation: 24086

If you call the compiler like start dcc32.exe xxxx yyy it starts asynchronously, so if you have 4 of those lines, you'll have 4 compilers running in parallel.

If the building process consists of compiling multiple items, you can create a batchfile to do the compiling.

If you only compile a single exe or library, you're pretty much stuch in a single thread.

Upvotes: 3

Remy Lebeau
Remy Lebeau

Reputation: 595981

No version of Delphi (not even the latest version) supports multi-thread/multi-core parallel compiling at all. As far as I know, there is no third party addon for it, either (unlike C++Builder, via TwineCompiler).

Upvotes: 2

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