Roadmaps here, surveys there, when can we expect to see a true 64 bit native Delphi compiler to write code for 64 bit XP or Vista? When too can we expect support for all the recent flavours of SSE implemented directly in the compiler?
Speaking for the few (?) of us who don't write "business" software or decorative stuff for the Web but write for those who do serious number crunching on large images only to have 32 bit Windows collapse with "out of resources" exceptions just like 16 bit Windows used to do with today's digital images, it's been a long and painful wait. A work-around like using memory mapped files and copying memory from a small bitmap with a canvas to which one can write symbols or text to a very large one as a memory mapped file, given the limitations of 492MB in XP and 650MB in WinServer2003 (see Windows Internals 4th Edition, pp. 401-413 for all the gory details) is a messy kludge, although I currently have to do this on the 20k x 20k color digital maps which are now supplied by a number of government mapping agencies here in Europe. By large images I mean things coming from photogrammetric digital mapping cameras like those available from http://gi.leica-geosystems.com/LGISub1x2x0.aspx or http://www.intergraph.com/dmc/default.asp or alternatively, to see what I mean, download 4 full Landsat 7 tiles from near the Equator, use the utilities available on the web site below to convert each mrsid image to Tiff at full scale and then try to write some text to them after loading four tiles to get the overlaps. https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/ Or am I missing something in versions of Delphi later than 7? Irwin Scollar _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
