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From the Byte magazine • November 1987 • p97:

"Borland says version 4.0 will outperform previous versions in compilation speed and efficiency. I compared 3.0 and my preliminary version of 4.0 in compiling the CALC.PAS program provided with Turbo Pascal. On a 4.77 MHz IBM PC with 512K bytes of RAM and an 8087 co processor, version 3.0 took 15 seconds to compile the 1272 line program. Turbo Pascal version 4.0 took just 10 seconds to compile a slightly different 1273 line version of CALC.PAS."