What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> To be honest, I don't remember. It was so-called "Lightspeed Pascal", later
> renamed "Think Pascal", and especially after that experience I mostly used
> it for experimenting with Hypertalk XCMDs and XFNCs, which were much
> simpler as they weren't stand-alone GUI applications.

I did some pretty extensive work with Think Pascal on a
1MB Mac Plus with two floppy drives (no HD) and I always
found it to be very efficient and a pleasure to work with.

Nine hours to compile a simple text editor sounds completely
ridiculous to me, even for the times. Something must have
been very, very badly wrong.

-- 
Greg