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0 pointsthe-dude4y ago0 comments

I don't know if the Pascal code ran slower, but the Borland compilers were plenty fast.

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Turbo Pascal was a very fast compiler, written in assembler.

I'm a Delphi developer, and have spent about 24 of the past 36 years programming in Pascal. The Delphi XE7 compiler (now about 8 years old) can on a one year old Lenovo laptop with 16 GB RAM compile 1.35 million LOC (in 80 different files) in 11 seconds. The 64-bit compile takes roughly twice as long.

One of the design features of Pascal was a one pass compile which explains the speed. Note also that the Delphi/Turbo Pascal compilers are smart and discard all unused code.

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