Re: Tech directions for Delphi?

What are DTG plans on these? Current development tools and languages are
quite inconvenient (to say the least) when doing multithreading...


Allen Bauer

"As for some more long-term developments, I obviously cannot be specific. I
can say that there is some thought and research going into how Delphi, the
language, can take advantage of the latest surge of multi-core processors. I'm
sure most folks have noticed that there has been a marked slowdown in the
rate at which clock speeds are increasing. While at the same time, the CPU
companies are focusing more on reducing power consumption and more
importantly, on putting more CPU cores onto the same die. This presents some
interesting challenges and opportunities for tools vendors. With the advent
of multi-CPU systems now showing up on people's laps, people are still
expecting a performance boost. Rather than simply cranking up the rate at
which a CPU can crunch through an application, they can now crunch through
more than one section of the same application at the same time. This
increases the need for the average developer to be become more adept at
writing multi-threaded applications. What if the compiler and the libraries
made this easier and more accessible? It is these kinds of questions we ask
ourselves everyday."

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