Re: The Register interview Nigel Brown

You are missing the point. The group broke the license if they published how much faster the new routines are over the old.

Much as I would be breaking the license and copyright by posting
the one unit I have that has some of the Delphi code in it.

Ramona van Riet wrote:
Om 16:00:28 uur, 29.04.2006, schreef Marco van de Voort:

They (FastCode) rewrote and still rewrite basic routines in the Delphi
RTL to speed them up, and, for instance, created the new memory
manager.
And if they look at the implementations and post the results publicly
(which I assume they do), they are actually LEGALLY infringing.

They take the RTL routines that are slow and improve them. They write
their own, much better ones than the originals. It is usually done in the
form of a contest. Borland has used quite a few of them, in D2005 and
D2006, including the new memory manager.

Just read the delphi.language.basm group.

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