On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 12:20:29 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Yes really, specially when comparing with Turbo Pascal, Delphi,
Modula-2, Oberon and a few other languages not tied to UNIX
linker model.
Yeah, I agree that the implementation for Turbo Pascal was good
for the hardware it ran on. But I don't think Pascal as a
language is easier to compile fast than C. I think they match up.
As a side note, Visual C++ 2015 will be quite fast.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/3-610
They literal have re-done their linker to use a database model
and support incremental linking.
Ok, I don't view linking as part of compilation... I don't think
C as a language requires a specific linkage model (only the
conceptual compilation units).
