Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 11:53 am

Rob Thorpe wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think you may be back in time a bit here. My benchmarks have Delphi
performing up there with GCC. The Turbo compiler was, agreed, dead
slow for code run time.

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