Re: Borland Layoffs?

From: Captain Jake (johnjac76[nospam)
Date: 12/28/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:02:26 -0600

In borland.public.delphi.non-technical, Frank Andreas de Groot
<nospam@abcdefgnospam.biz> wrote in message <3fedfbad$1
@newsgroups.borland.com>...
> a. Optimization of the Floating point output would give a speedup of 1,000%
> there.

That's assuming that they could match the Intel compiler.

> b. Support for AMD64

This will be in .NET so it would be redundant in Win32.

> c. Inline functions

The optimizer often quietly does this for you. In addition, the register
calling convention makes this somewhat moot.

>
> d. UNICODE support

Again, this will be in .NET so it would be redundant in Win32.

>
> e. Some nasty bugs fixed

This is a legitimate concern IMHO.

>
> f. support COFF so that we can link with MS C++

That would have been good years ago. Now it would be too little too late. 

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