Re: Delphi.NET vs C#: is Delphi.NET compelling?

From: Hrvoje Brozovic (a.b_at_c.de)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:26:25 +0100

"Eric Grange" <egrange@glscene.org> wrote in message
news:3FC4CF59.2403F91B@glscene.org...
> > Well, if Itanium is slow at 32bit code [...]
>
> Judging by the results of Java JIT compilers, the added
> complexity of generating remotely-efficient code for EPIC
> doesn't really help, with slowdowns reported to be several
> orders of magnitude when generated code isn't close to
> optimal (the virtualization of x86 is "only" 2-3 times slower).
> Even the JIT vendors warn about greatly increased JIT compile
> times (ie. not really suitable for interactive use, only for
> server-side stuff).
>
> Eric

Eric, I have no real .NET experience, but I'll try to argue
with what I heard here and there. What
if you use that ngen tool to precompile assembly?
Then compiler have time to think it through, there is
no hurry as when jitting.

I can not miss how ridiciolous this is.
They first claim binary compatibility as a holly grail.
When that fails, there is great thing of native compilation
on target machine. It looks as something Unix allways had,
but I must be wrong, because Unix is bad, as we all know. :)