Why does Turbo Pascal compile so much faster than TC++?

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From: Antony Hodgson
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 15:53

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I've been using Turbo C++ almost exclusively over the past few months,
but I recently went back to a Turbo Pascal v5.5 program I'd written
earlier and was amazed at the high speed of compilation and linking.  This
got me wondering what it was about the differences in the structure of
Pascal and C++ that forces the compilation of C++ to be so slow (I'm
assuming, of course, that Borland applied roughly the same level of
compiler design expertise to both projects).  What does it have to do
with the differences between TPUs and OBJ files?

Any ideas, anyone?

Tony Hodgson
ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu

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Subject: Why does Turbo Pascal compile so much faster than TC++?
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