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Or,
for that matter Mac OS X?
very
fast hardware, and excellent free developer tools
-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh
Wanstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Thursday,December,11,2003 11:42 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group -
Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Delphi 8 Bug-Find-A-Thon
Response
Hi
Phil,
Why
can't you move to Linux platform, if you really want the performance? I enjoy
the freedom of Linux, both for free of lunch and the freedom to modify
any kernel source code I want. Kylix 3 with unofficial patch
actually running on my latest Linux kernel 2.6 test11 edition in Mandrake
9.2. The performance of kylix application running on Linux 2.6 is
amazing fast. I quite like that preemptive kernel feature and npai for
network. The downturn is you have to know C language, but it is not a big
issue for me, as I am an experienced C/C++ developer too. If I really want
performance, I did program in MMX assembler too.
By
the way, by using Linux, you don't need to convince your customer to buy an
expensive Win2K server license for $2K+, add another MSSQL
server license for $8K+, all these money can go to your pocket instead of
Microsoft by using Linux with MySQL. I don't think Microsoft will give me
huge discount on using their product. I get it for free if I am using
Kylix. I guess for small business in NZ, the profit margin for us
Delphi/Kylix developer is quite narrow IMHO.
Regards
Leigh
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> So your argument is that .NET
doesn't perform as well as compiled code for
>
Win32?
In a nutshell. Reading
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/using/understanding/perf/default.aspx?pull=/
library/en-us/dndotnet/html/dotnetperftips.asp
did
not make the hype on JIT sound very compelling to me. Sounds awfully
the
issue of making DirectX perform - like tinkering with an engine through
the
exhaust pipe because the overhead on calls is so high.
> What
about the huge amount of research that quite clearly says that
certain
> kinds of optimizations done at runtime by smart engines
allow p-code
> applications in many ways to be _faster_ than
their native code from the
> start equivalents?
Oh
yes?. That would explain the performance of the java-only office suite?
Now
I am freely admitting to being very skeptical here but I am open to be
convinced. A big shift in game development to .NET platform
(clientside)
I would find compelling - but instead I hear a lot of
bitching.
> What about the ability to distinguish between server
side and client side
> optimizations?
Irrelevant on
whole to most apps I would do.
> The current win32 compiler
market [for delphi at least] is a one size fits
> all, .net
clearly focuses on the ability to dramatically _improve_
>
performance, not reduce it!
>
> Surely you don't
believe what you just wrote?
Perhaps needing a lot of convincing
to believe the hype instead? I would have
thought the .NET was pretty
focused on, well, .net - performance and
development speed for net
applications maybe. (Aside from MS market issues
anyway). A non-trivial
openGL app running faster under .NET than
under
win32?
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Phil
Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
764 Cumberland St,
Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477
5232
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