Re: Make Garbage Collection Optional Then I Will Shut Up

From: Eric Grange (egrangeNO_at_SPAMglscene.org)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:28:52 +0200

> I am not a Borland employee.

IANAL, but from a purely legal point of view, I would say that may be
irrelevant, being "employed by" being often understood as "receiving
money or compensations from" in courts.

> And in my experience, .NET is not slow at all. It must just be
> programmed differently than Win32.

I'm ready for a contest on algorithms that involves array accesses
and multiple function/procedure calls, pit "best Delphi.Net" versus
"best Delphi 5-7". Slower version loses.
Code must be able to run indefinetely with NO memory leak (being
they in the code or the runtime).
No publication of detailed results since that is not allowed by
one of the licenses, but allow the world to test for themselves
and donate all resulting code to JEDI f.i.

Ready? Here is your chance to back your words and shut me up.

> function results where references would be better

Function results are only half of the problem, constant parameters
are the other half, ref/var won't be able to handle every case
and it's very bad design to say 'var' when you mean 'const',
just like it's not very good design to use procedure when you meant
functions (procedures can't be used as parameters in expressions).

> are not aware of the fact that arrays are reference types

And if you need a real array, you do what?
Use pointers and manually offset them?

> And my newsgroup post was not "false advertising" anyway.

It wasn't backed by facts, it's promoting a product, it's public.

Eric