Re: Version after Version

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:28:55 +0200, "Frank de Groot"
<franciad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
>
>> While the move from 16 to 32 bit was of major significance, the
>> emergence of 64 bit processors strikes me as something of a yawn.
>
>Not if you need speed.
>When written to take advantage of the 64-bit wide data path, applications
>can become twice as fast.

I fail to follow why that should be the case
- It will increase speed when copying largish chunks of memory
- but will have zilch efect on copying say a 4 byte pointer
It is possible that copying 4 bytes will be slower

>> With the exception of one guy here, I've never run into a system that
>> really needs so much memory

>All servers "need" it, nowadays.

Such machines would probably be better off with banks of memory

>> To my knowledge Delphi has had the WideString for quite some time, not
>> that one uses it much.

>Everyone that takes the Asian market seriously, needs full-fledged Unicode
>capability of the VCL, not just WideString.

I suppose so, but I have such a strong dislike of Unicode ...
.

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