Re: D64, or Why Borland Ought to NOT Work on a 64-bit Version of DelphiRight Now

From: Lord Crc (lordcrc_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:24:37 +0100

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:08:12 -0500, "Dennis Landi" <nada@nada.com>
wrote:

>Borland just needs enough sales to justify the cost of the
>compiler.

Actually no. A simplified example. Imagine that borland has a choice
of two features to implement. To make things easier, imagine that
estimates are they'll cost the same to implement. If estimates are
option A will lead to a net gain of X units sold, then for Borland to
choose option B, it would have to sell _at least_ X units. If not,
they'd lose money on selecting B (as chosing A would have gained them
more money).

So Borland not only needs enough sales to justify the cost of
developing a 64bit native compiler, it needs enough sales to justify
doing it instead of something else. Remember that the compiler team is
a very small team, and as such can only do so much in a given
timeframe.

- Asbjørn

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