Re: The KMPlayer is written in Delphi! COOL!!!

"Phillip Woon" <pwoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46353fd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alan Garny wrote:
"Richard Foersom" <r.nojunk.foersom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4634b12c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I would like to see more library functionality like A/V codes written
in Delphi but I think that requires a long term commitment by CodeGear
to make cross-platform Delphi compiler and a key interest in optimised
compiler code generation. Adding in FastCode rountines is a good start
but more is needed from CodeGears side.

An optimised compiler would indeed be VERY nice! I recently did some tests for a C library that use in my Delphi application (a scientific application). I compiled the library (to a DLL) using the Borland C++ compiler, as well as the Microsoft and Intel one, and did some tests using all three libraries in the exact same way. Well, guess which one was (significantly) slower? :)

Now, I code all my math-related stuff in C and compile it with one of those three compilers (I shall let you guess which one... :)).

Alan.

The slowest one? :)

For the kind of thing I do, the slowest one proved to be the compiler that I would have liked to use in the first place... :)

Alan.

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