Actually, our compiler has never changed speed. The true compiler is our brain. A programmer in the 80's and a programmer today have the same brain compiler s

Actually, our compiler has never changed speed. The true compiler is our brain. A programmer in the 80's and a programmer today have the same brain compiler speed. Before you can write any program, you have to build, run and execute it in your head. That's the challenge most of us face today. Hardware/Software doesn't matter much. The average indie developer is writing games in about 20k-50k line of code. Doesn't matter if it's 6502/z80 asm code in 80's or Unity/C# or Java code in 2018.