Compile time of resource file

[Pascal]

Why does compiling this resource unit takes more than 30 seconds? (Ryzen 9 3900X)
The resource is 8.4 MB.

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1. unit primeRes;
2.  
3. {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
4.  
5. interface
6.  
7. implementation
8.  
9. uses
10.   LResources;
11.  
12. initialization
13.  
14. LazarusResources.Add('handbuch','PDF',[
15.   '%PDF-1.5'#13#10'%'#181#181#181#181#13#10'1 0 obj'#13#10'<</Type/Catalog/Page'
16.   +'s 2 0 R/Lang(de-DE) /StructTreeRoot 418 0 R/MarkInfo<</Marked true>>>>'#13
17.   +#10'endobj'#13#10'2 0 obj'#13#10'<</Type/Pages/Count 49/Kids[ 3 0 R 10 0 R 1'
18.   +'6 0 R 17 0 R 25 0 R 29 0 R 32 0 R 35 0 R 39 0 R 43 0 R 47 0 R 50 0 R 51 0 R'
19.   +' 53 0 R 55 0 R 56 0 R 57 0 R 58 0 R 59 0 R 60 0 R 61 0 R 62 0 R 63 0 R 64 0'
20.   +' R 66 0 R 68 0 R 70 0 R 71 0 R 72 0 R 73 0 R 74 0 R 77 0 R 82 0 R 85 0 R 88'
21.   ...
22.   +'1C323BA7AE7EC445A109053CCA4CB522>] >>'#13#10'startxref'#13#10'2125192'#13#10
23.   +'%%EOF'#13#10'xref'#13#10'0 0'#13#10'trailer'#13#10'<</Size 1902/Root 1 0 R/'
24.   +'Info 417 0 R/ID[<1C323BA7AE7EC445A109053CCA4CB522><1C323BA7AE7EC445A109053C'
25.   +'CA4CB522>] /Prev 2125192/XRefStm 2120577>>'#13#10'startxref'#13#10'2163396'
26.   +#13#10'%%EOF'
27. ]);
28. LazarusResources.Add('kurzanleitung','PDF',[
29.   '%PDF-1.5'#13#10'%'#181#181#181#181#13#10'1 0 obj'#13#10'<</Type/Catalog/Page'
30.   +'s 2 0 R/Lang(de-DE) /StructTreeRoot 106 0 R/MarkInfo<</Marked true>>>>'#13
31.   +#10'endobj'#13#10'2 0 obj'#13#10'<</Type/Pages/Count 2/Kids[ 3 0 R 53 0 R] >'
32.   +'>'#13#10'endobj'#13#10'3 0 obj'#13#10'<</Type/Page/Parent 2 0 R/Resources<<'
33.   +'/Font<</F1 5 0 R/F2 9 0 R/F3 11 0 R/F4 16 0 R/F5 18 0 R/F6 42 0 R/F7 46 0 R'
34.   ...
35.   +'<1F824346AFB279479AF038F22AD20A7A><1F824346AFB279479AF038F22AD20A7A>] >>'#13
36.   +#10'startxref'#13#10'483577'#13#10'%%EOF'#13#10'xref'#13#10'0 0'#13#10'trail'
37.   +'er'#13#10'<</Size 473/Root 1 0 R/Info 105 0 R/ID[<1F824346AFB279479AF038F22'
38.   +'AD20A7A><1F824346AFB279479AF038F22AD20A7A>] /Prev 483577/XRefStm 482310>>'
39.   +#13#10'startxref'#13#10'493198'#13#10'%%EOF'
40. ]);
41.  
42. end.
43.  

[Cyrax]

Why you are using old resource file format (Lazarus)? Please use FPC (native) resource file format.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Resources#FPC_resources

[Thaddy]

Why you are using old resource file format (Lazarus)? Please use FPC (native) resource file format.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Resources#FPC_resources

Because the old stuff is not marked as deprecated? Which it is.

[Pascal]

Okay, i could change resource format but the question is: Why is this so slow? About one year ago i didn't notice any slow compiling of this unit.

[eljo]

Why you are using old resource file format (Lazarus)? Please use FPC (native) resource file format.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Resources#FPC_resources

because only the old stuf work as expected with the components icons in the IDE? but yea other than that you should use an .rc file

[Cyrax]

Okay, i could change resource format but the question is: Why is this so slow? About one year ago i didn't notice any slow compiling of this unit.

Probably due to changes how FPC trunk compiler handles strings and its conversions to UTF8 and back etc. Also there is a ton new shiny features added to the trunk compiler.

You might want to test if disabling $LONGSTRINGS feature (aka reference counted strings) helps.  https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu25.html

[PascalDragon]

You might want to test if disabling $LONGSTRINGS feature (aka reference counted strings) helps.  https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu25.html

It will help in so far that his resources will be broken, because the strings are longer than 255 characters.

[Pascal]

You might want to test if disabling $LONGSTRINGS feature (aka reference counted strings) helps.  https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu25.html

It will help in so far that his resources will be broken, because the strings are longer than 255 characters.

 

But what is the reason for the slowdown. I couldn't remember that compile times were that bad in the past. Compiling my project in Lazarus seems to stop for half a minute now.

[winni]

Hi!

In the Laz resource strings unprintable chars below <= #32 are not allowed.

So space has to be #32 or '  ' and so on.

The same for chars > #127

Maxbe that is the reason.


Winni

[Pascal]

Can't be true! The two embedded pdf files work as expeced, so no issues.
The only problem i have is the very long compile time. This is not a drama, just curious, because they were unnoticeable some time agao.

[marcov]

But what is the reason for the slowdown. I couldn't remember that compile times were that bad in the past. Compiling my project in Lazarus seems to stop for half a minute now.

Probably the support for Unicode as Cyrax already said