Reminds me of this old series of posts on the Turbo Pascal compiler (have been shared a few times on HN in the past): A Personal History of Compilation Speed (

Reminds me of this old series of posts on the Turbo Pascal compiler (have been shared a few times on HN in the past): A Personal History of Compilation Speed (2 parts): https://prog21.dadgum.com/45.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/45.html "Full rebuilds were about as fast as saying the name of each file in the project aloud. And zero link time. Again, this was on an 8MHz 8088." Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than: https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html Old versions of Turbo Pascal running in FreeDOS on the bare metal of a 21st century PC is how fast and responsive I wish all software could be, but never is. Press a key and before you have time to release it the operation you started has already completed.