Actually, how was Turbo Pascal faster than the competition was completely obvious to those experienced in the software development at that time: It did everyth

Actually, how was Turbo Pascal faster than the competition was completely obvious to those experienced in the software development at that time: It did everything possible in memory, avoiding reading and writing of temporary files. Microsoft tools did it with the file I/O for multiple passes, a traditional solution for coping with limited RAM and applying optimization steps and targeting different processors.