https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler probably compiles as fast or faster than the Pascal you remember. Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler probably compiles as fast or faster than the Pascal you remember. You can even use it as a backend for the Nim (https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ ) compiler for subsecond builds of a modern language with various choices for automatic memory management.