Well, Free Pascal was never as fast as Delphi and i doubt its feature set would allow it to be as fast anyway. Delphi only supported a single platform for a sin

Well, Free Pascal was never as fast as Delphi and i doubt its feature set would allow it to be as fast anyway. Delphi only supported a single platform for a single CPU for the largest majority of its lifetime whereas Free Pascal supported a ton of different CPUs and platforms while also adding support for a variety of different Pascal dialects at the same time and often extending the language beyond what you'd see in Delphi - all that adds up quickly. Still, as i wrote, in practice FPC is quite fast. Lazarus itself is almost two million lines of code and yet it compiles and links in seconds.