Delphi was extremely fast, and later much heavier releases such as Delphi 4 still were a lot more fast back then on older machines than Lazarus/FreePascal is to

Delphi was extremely fast, and later much heavier releases such as Delphi 4 still were a lot more fast back then on older machines than Lazarus/FreePascal is today on modern hardware. To give some figures, I've installed an old non legit version of Delphi 7 on Linux through Wine, and timed some compilation tests, from start of compilation to application running. Well, on Lazarus an empty form takes like 28 seconds to compile first time, or uncached, while from 2nd time on it takes from 2 to 3 seconds. Another form filled with objects takes 3 seconds on Delphi 7 uncached, and about 1 second cached. All this under Wine, i5 machine, mechanical disk drive; the difference is astounding. I wish Lazarus/Freepascal received some optimizations to get more close to the speed of Delphi.