Re: Borland is neglecting Delphi for Win32 badly

From: Euan Garden (euan_garden_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:44:24 -0800

Nick hits on some of this and this is a multi hour discussion, but remember
we verify the IL at load time, that means we can make certain assumptions
about the behaviour of the code and optimise for that.

-Euan

"Will DeWitt Jr." <edge@NOSPAM.icehouse.net> wrote in message
news:41ef28a7$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Euan Garden wrote:
>
>> Nope its not a problem with the architecture, in the best case I can
>> think of this is code that we shipped in SQL7 and SQL2000 as native
>> and all we did was switch out one component for a .Net one, the
>> underlying APIs are still native.
>
> Assuming the XP code calls the underlying native API's, why do you
> believe the C# version would still be faster? It seems to me that, all
> things being equal, the C# version should either be the same speed or
> slower.
>
> Will
>
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