In my college graphics class (taught by Jack Bresenham, no less) I asked for permission to use the new Borland Turbo C for my class projects. After a quick reco

In my college graphics class (taught by Jack Bresenham, no less) I asked for permission to use the new Borland Turbo C for my class projects. After a quick recompile for the demo (the PC in the classroom wasn't a 80286) I found my code ran a third of the speed of everyone else's, which had been written in Turbo Pascal v4. And that's how I learned that mature compilers are better than 1.0 release compilers.