15 years ago, the conventional wisdom (for whatever that is werth), was that C++ and Pascal produce similarly efficient compiled binaries. You could cherry pic

15 years ago, the conventional wisdom (for whatever that is werth), was that C++ and Pascal produce similarly efficient compiled binaries. You could cherry pick examples that would show one or the other was "faster". Clearly C++ has has a whole lot more neurons grinding on how to better optimize it over the last 15 years. That should be good meat for an rich and enlightening article. Instead we get bunk. Code times for Pascal vs. C++ with experienced developers are similar. I've written quite a bit of both. If you want to play ridiculous code-time games you might as well argue that Python is faster than C++. I would be interested in a real head-to-head of modern pascal vs C++ including compile time. But that require a lot of real work where a fluffy thing like this only requires an opinion.