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I, for one, can't see any speed difference between a program written in Pascal (Total Commander, which I use every day) and one written in C++ (Windows Explorer

I, for one, can't see any speed difference between a program written in Pascal (Total Commander, which I use every day) and one written in C++ (Windows Explorer).

asdff 2mo ago
You can’t compare apples to elephants here.
leptons 2mo ago
File browsers are probably the worst example you could use here. The actual file manipulations are handled by the OS. The rest of it is just displaying lists of files, so no real speed difference would be noticed in different languages/programs. Most of the time the file browser is just sitting there waiting for user interaction. The programs that do benefit from speed aren't file browsers.
- Alpha3031 2mo ago
  There are a lot of applications like that though, only they're all being rewritten for electron.
- hn_submit 2mo ago
  It's the only example I could come up with. There aren't that many programs written in Pascal.