Lazarus 0.9.24 Final Testing

[WILL]

Yup, you've got it! The new Lazarus is almost upon us!

This is probably the most anticipated release of the IDE tool since the inclusion of the 2.0 version of the Free Pascal compiler.

This version will instead champion the 2.2 version of FPC as well as some fundamental tweaks to the IDE including the much touted 'Close Project' option under the File menu. :thumbup:


You can read more about Lazarus development at the team's blog over at: http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.com/

[cronodragon]

The IDE looks nicer, seems more stable and compiles much quicker... builds all almost as fast as Delphi. Got to try Ubuntu's version.

[arthurprs]

good i will give a try when released

[jdarling]

The blog entry was made on the 5th of November (easy to subscribe to) and 9.24 was released late (if I remember right on Thursday) last week. Been running it for a few days now and while I'm impressed with the speed increases, there are some problems . In short, don't upgrade just install over and re-build.

[cronodragon]

The speed increases are related to FPC 2.2, or to Lazarus enhancements?

[Robert Kosek]

Any improvements in the output filesize maybe?

[arthurprs]

The blog entry was made on the 5th of November (easy to subscribe to) and 9.24 was released late (if I remember right on Thursday) last week. Been running it for a few days now and while I'm impressed with the speed increases, there are some problems . In short, don't upgrade just install over and re-build.

more details?

[WILL]

Any improvements in the output filesize maybe?

It's been said that FPC 2.2 will give you better sized EXEs over the older 2.0.4 version. So in that respect I'm sure it will be so. As for the LCL and whatever else Laz straps into the EXE I'm not to sure. I guess there will be a change log.

I just hope that they highlight the features of the new release like they did for the last release. I found that really helpful when looking for the really juicy stuff that I could actually sink my own Win32 teeth into.

[Ñuño Martínez]

The speed increases are related to FPC 2.2, or to Lazarus enhancements?

I think it is related to FPC 2.2. It has a lot of bugfixing, including a bug that always included debug information ignoring flags.

Now a question: Does FPC 2.2 allows real inline procedures? I mean, if I declare a procedure/function/method as inline it will be inlined in all units that use that procedure/function/method? Previous FPC doesn't export inline procedure/function/method.

[pstudio]

I'm not sure, but I believe that modern compilers only use inline as a hint. The compiler will in the end make the choice if it's reasonable to inline a function or not.