Re: The New Roadmap

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:03:56 -0600, Michael Anonymous
<Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, I do believe that most Delphi developers want a native 64-bit compiler.
And current data tends to suggest this is the case as well.

The QC data shows that at 159 to 794 users has voted for this one.
Considering that 386 people have rated it, it seems likely that the
number of voters is approximately the same.

In any event, while polling 1000 people can lead to a highly accurate
prediction of the outcome of an election say, that's because those
people were selected with great care to be a representative subset of
the entire population of registered voters.

This is certainly NOT the case with the people who votes in QC. Since
we (at least I) do not have any data that relates the subset of users
who are active in QC with the general population of Delphi users, at
least I can't be sure that those who are active in QC aren't also more
likely to want win64 bit development.

So, it makes little sense to draw any conclusion from this other that
there is a non-zero interest for the feature. Saying that "most"
Delphi users want it is a huge stretch, imho.

- Asbjørn
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