Cubic Design wrote; >The 64 bits is (for today) also a waste of money. Take a look at >comparative tests (like Tom's Hardware) and you will see that the gain >is in most cases 0% (if you are using regular programs like media >players, browsers, text processors, email). Delphi for sure will not >take advantage of those 64 bits. > >Maybe in few years more software will take advantage on those 2 cores >and 64 bits. However, today it is too early, especially for us, >Borland's guys.
There are problems right now. I have one machine with a SuperMicro dual core dual Opteron motherboard that runs Vista 32 and 64 bit as well as XP 32 and 64 bit OS's with 4GB memory with mapping over the display card memory hole enabled in the BIOS. Routines that use 32 bit integer typecasting instead of a cardinal or int64 can fail if the 32 bit integer wraps around and goes negative when Delphi's memory manager or FastMM see more than 2GB and a AV crash may result. A true 64 bit version of Delphi seems a long way off (sigh!). Irwin Scollar _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
