Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 01:57 pm

Rob Thorpe wrote:
>>>>The equivalent Object Pascal code compiles in less than a second.
>>>
>>>There are many reasons for this, the biggest three are:
>>>1. The object pascal compiler is very fast because it doesn't optimize
>>>much
>>
>>The pascal compilers optimize just as much.
> 
> 
> Do you actually have any evidence of that?  Although it's possible for
> a compiler to optimize a Pascal program more aggresively than a C one,
> I've never seen a Pascal compiler as good as the good C ones.

Then you've never seen a real Pascal compiler.

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