[RealiZM]

I used Borland's Pascal. And I know this: it had insane compile/build time, even with TurboVision or OWL libraries for UI. Borland's C++ compiler of same age weren't even close. And despite all language extensions, Pascal was quick to parse and to generate not great, but okay code. Over 20 years later, GCC without -O1 generates countless coping for very simple C code. Not to mention all brainpower and money behind C and C++ versus behind Pascal. This quote proves that computer industry often goes after the worst option and is very fond of reinventing wheel.

[kragen]

countless copies?

[RealiZM]

Yes, instead copying from memory to memory using registers it was something like memory-registers-stack-registers-memory. Is not some ancient GCC from early 1990s, it was around 2010 or so.

[kragen]

yeah, i've had that experience too, which is why i guessed you meant to say 'countless copies'