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Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> They were fast only by comparison with very slow compilers.
> I remember, around 1987, someone telling me in astonishment
> that Turbo ran at 2KSLOC/minute. I was unimpressed, as I had
> worked on a compiler that ran at 20KSLOC/min a decade earlier.

Do you mean Turbo Pascal, or one of the other Turbos like Turbo C++?

Did you mean KSLOC/second rather than per minute?  I think by 1987
(that would have been the 286-386 era) TP would have been compiling many
KSLOC/second.  On old CP/M machines it would have been slower.

Was your 20KSLOC/??? compiler running on comparable hardware?