> For example, given the same piece of software under development with a comparable number of lines, Turbo Pascal development cycle was about 5 seconds, while T

> For example, given the same piece of software under development with a comparable number of lines, Turbo Pascal development cycle was about 5 seconds, while Turbo C gave you 40 seconds of a round-trip time at best. I mentioned it here recently but, we use Delphi at work, the Turbo Pascal successor. A full release build of our main project is about 2 million lines of code, and compiles and links in about 40 seconds on my laptop which has an Intel i7-1260P. A mere compile is of course typically much faster. I haven't benchmarked it recently myself, but back in the 2000s code generation was quite decent. It was good enough I decided to stop handwriting assembly, as writing compiler-friendly code was significantly faster and much more readable.