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Optimization

GNU Pascal is a 32/64 bit compiler with excellent optimization algorithms (which are identically the same as those of GNU C). There are six optimization levels, specified by the command line options -O, -O2, ..., -O6.

One example:

program OptimizationDemo;

procedure Foo;
var
  A, B: Integer;
begin
  A := 3;
  B := 4;
  WriteLn (A + B)
end;

begin
  Foo
end.

When GNU Pascal compiles this program with optimization (-O3), it recognizes that the argument to `WriteLn' is the constant 7 - and optimizes away the variables A and B. If the variables were global, they would not be optimized away because they might be accessed from other places, but the constant 7 would still be optimized.

For more about optimization, see the GNU C documentation.