Re: 64-Bit Compiler Would Help Sell More 32-Bit Compilers

From: James K Smith (jksmith_at_dx-machine.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:41:15 -0600

And why would you care with a user-bound app? But of course these types of
apps are not what 64 bit can make an interesting contribution to. Multimedia
servers, database servers, web servers, encryption, closed systems, etc. I
think could all benefit from 64 bit technology.

Does anyone here remember the objections to 32 bit because 16 bit was
plenty? Part of what's exciting about programming is the advance of
technology because it provides you with more opportunities to think up new
ideas, and provide better solutions to complex problems.

It's too bad this concern about where Borland best spends its resources has
split people into two camps. I think the bottom line is we need both .net
and 64 bit.

Delphi has always been a unique and extremely productive alternative to
whatever Microsoft was trying to get us to use, but if it ends up just being
another .net language, I don't see that future looking too bright. You think
organizations or Microsoft really give a crap about .net being
multi-language outside of C# and VB? I really think D.net needs a 64 bit D
to maintain its legitimacy as a viable alternative to Microsoft.

"Alexander Adam" <nospam@please.com> wrote in message
news:42064f5c$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Intel has said you can expect an average 10% increase in performance
> > just by recompiling for x64. Tweak your code using BASM to take
> > advantage of some of the more esoteric features and you're probably
> > looking at a 25+% boost.
>
> Sorry, but that just sounds quite silly from Intel then. Take e.g. a
simple
> word processing app.. you really think there'd be a speedup of 10% just by
> compilling it for 64bit? _never_ ;-)
>
> Alex
>
>

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