I think it depends on the language. I heard Turbo Pascal was pretty fast because 1) Pascal’s language features, 2) no optimization in TP 1.0 at least.

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MarsIronPI 5 days ago | parent [-]

Fast to run or fast to compile?

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markus_zhang 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Fast to compile. It was very fast comparing to the others then. Since computers were slow (8086/80286) compiling speed actually mattered.

https://www.pcengines.ch/tp3.htm

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MarsIronPI 5 days ago | parent [-]

As an ex-Gentoo user I can confirm that compiling speed still matters on certain machines.

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markus_zhang 5 days ago | parent [-]

I have never worked as a system programmer so I never had the need to compile something big. I guess it could be an issue with very large software like Oracle Database, the Linux kernel and other similar stuffs.

	▲	rini17 a day ago \| parent [-]
		The kernel is quite okay. On the other hand, qtwebengine..

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renox 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well given that often the alternative was BASIC which was interpreted, it also felt fast to run..