Re: DLL with BPC 7.0

From: Marco van de Voort (marcov_at_stack.nl)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:10:34 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-07-26, Fons <> wrote:

>> I don't understand? the 32-bit delphi code should be faster than the
> 16-bit
>> TP code.
>>
>> Delphi is not interpreted, but solidly compiled. It should easily
> outperformance
>> TP/BP
>
> What I mean is that compiled code is faster than interpreted. So compiled by
> an old compiler is faster than interpreted by a program written by me in
> Delphi.

Yes, but why don't you compile it directly with Delphi ?

BPC is still payware too.

> Yes I know Delphi is faster than code generated by BPC. The point
> is; if I put my complete program on Internet with an old compiler there's no
> problem.

Yes there is. BPC is not free afaik. Only the French version of TP7 is free
(the other language versions NOT)

> Maybe I should just use the TPLY. Do you know it ? Code that lets you
> build a (compiled) expression-interpreter.

Simply use FPC, it compiles TP code, basic (as in non-vcl) Delphi code, and
release package tply ( :-) )

http://www.freepascal.org
http://lazarus.freepascal.org

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