Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 01:49 am

Scott Moore wrote:
> 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.

Well tell me where I can see one :)

The one everyone who writes Pascal seems to use is Borland's which
isn't very good.

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