Re: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ---> Delphi 2005 x64 Edition?

From: Mike Swaim (mswaim_at_odin.mdacc.tmc.edu)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: 1 Feb 2005 11:12:31 -0800

Thomas Miller wrote:

> I don't. Everyone knows that memory is the fastest way to speed up
> anything.
  No. The fastest way to speed up most apps is to use more efficent
code. Next up is faster hardware (CPU/Memory). The really nasty stuff
that we have takes up less that 500 MB/machine, but runs on dozens of
machines nightly. My biggest memory hog is the VM that my build machine
runs on.

> More and more systems are doing multitasking, especially in the
> virus, spyware, firewall arena. Allowing me to run this software in
> the back ground and keep my real programs at the same speed is
> welcome.
  A dual core (or hyperthreading) CPU will do this better than going 64
bit.

> From my software point of view, reports can take much
> longer on a computer that is slower, as it caches and crunches the
> columns. So anyone that runs reports would be a candidate for a
> 64bit computer .

  Most report engines that I've seen don't cache data. The one
application that I did work on that broke the 4 GB barrier did
financial modelling and both cached and generated a huge amount of
data. (Loading data took longer than processing it. Saving the results
dwarfed both of them. And the code to do saves was multithreaded for
speed, too.) 

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