Re: Compiler Code Optimization

From: JED (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: 15 Sep 2004 22:19:23 -0700

Eric Grange wrote:

> > I do not understand why it has been neglected totally in all these
> > years.
>
> Maybe for the same reason Borland accepted the huge performance hit
> floating point took in Delphi.Net (even vs C# or VB.Net): they don't
> really use floating point themselves...

{$FINITEFLOAT OFF} and Delphi.NET is faster. 

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