[Lazarus] [OT] Pascal's Compilers.

[Paul Breneman]

Frank Church wrote:
> On 26 September 2011 10:28, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 26/09/11 10:10, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>
>>> On 25/09/2011 04:19, Cristofer Martins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone explains me why programs generated by Pascal compilers are
>>>> less fast than programs generateds by  C/C++ Compilers? Is this
>>>> related with Compilation time? Pascal Compilers compile programs very
>>>> fast compared c/c++ compilers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This reminds me of an old joke of making of a Straw Man figure of
>>> speech...
>>>
>>> /When/ will you stop beating up your wife/woman/girlfriend ? (select as
>>> appropriate)
>>>
>> This is actually a "loaded question", not a straw man.  But I agree,
>> Cristofer's question is a great example of this fallacy.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/pascal.php
> 
> There are always trade-offs.
> 
> In any case "*Show me the code!!*"

There is a *huge* difference in the "Memory KB" in most cases!