>>26 Low memory use compared to other language implementations - because Free Pascal statically links programs by default, avoiding libc.
Confirmed.
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Lang Env Time VIRT RES 1/(t×res)
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Pascal FreePascal 18.141s 384K 4K 13780µHz/KB
C gcc #4 7.501s 7256K 424K 314µHz/KB
Seriously, IHNBT. How meaningful is ``Efficiency'' when you include 400K+ of library blobs (libc+libm)?