> Latest big change was the addition of generics, behind almost any other language. FPC added generics 17 years ago, that is far from recent. Also i'd say that

> Latest big change was the addition of generics, behind almost any other language. FPC added generics 17 years ago, that is far from recent. Also i'd say that anonymous functions and function references (closures) are better candidates for "big change that was added recently". > FPC doesn't generate particularly fast code, and the nature of OP objects doesn't help with locality. It's faster than scripting languages, but generally slower than AOT compiled languages, even those with GC. In practice the performance is fine and you can actually optimize the code as much as you need for any hotspots you find - it can be a bit more of a PITA if you use the "high level" classes compared to C++ but it isn't impossible. Though if you really want performance out of the box with minimal effort from your side, there is a new LLVM backend. You need to compile the compiler from source to enable it as the entire runtime library, FCL, etc need to be built with the LLVM backend, but that takes only a couple of minutes. On the other hand the compiler becomes much slower (and IMO the difference in performance isn't worth it).