Re: Why 64bit Delphi compiler from Borland may be meaningless!

From: Ingvar Nilsen (telcontr_at_online-not-this-part-.no)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:39:25 +0100

Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] wrote:

> Yes. Always use fixed size types, like AnsiChar, WideChar, ShortInt,
> Byte, SmallInt, Word, LongInt, LongWord, and not the "generic" types
> like Integer, Cardinal and Char.

What I have learnt is the opposite.
Except from structures stored in files where the location needs to be
accurate, a generic type will be more portable and will be optimized by
the compiler.
Source code written with D1 would then be compiled with maximum
optimization, in D2..D7, D2005, even in a Delphi 64 bit version. 

-- 
Ingvar Nilsen

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