Re: FastCode Reference Compilers

Rod,

| Move to Delphi 6. It supports the extended instruction sets and
| provides a very good compiler.

And, I think, it was the last Delphi that didn't exhibit outrageous
code-bloat with each increasing version tick. <sigh> I ran D6 in a 400
MHz P3, 192 MB ram, 6 GB HD system without problems and it ran quite
"snappily!"

--
Q

12/29/2007 12:14:15

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