> Hundreds of thousands of lines per minute isn't the same as 32,000 LOC per second.

Right, this is an example of the Java speed being terrible because Borland was almost as good thirty years ago. 32,000 lines per second is 100,000 lines per three seconds, 2 million lines per minute. Compare the statistic that wasn't thirty years old:

> “Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second.”