- Increasing the spread of Component Pascal & BlackBox

From: CFB Software <"CFB>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 15:08:02 +0930

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Behalf Of Wojtek Skulski
> >
> > .NET provides the simplest migration route for 64-bit
> support (already
> > happened) and future versions of Windows. GPCP has also

> been reported
> > as running under Mono - the Linux flavour of the .NET framework.
>
> I am myself OK with 32-bit, but Robert Campbell is looking
> for the 64-bit Component Pascal. Robert, are you listening?
>

Let me clarify this. GPCP Component Pascal has not been changed to support
64-bit Windows. However, a 64-bit version of the .NET runtime is now
available:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/64bit/default.aspx

"The 64-bit version of the .NET Framework 2.0 allows you to take full
advantage of the underlying 64-bit hardware platform without having to deal
with differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms"

GPCP Component Pascal for .NET generates the 'intermediate language' or
IL-code used by .NET. When you run a '.NET' application, it is compiled on
the fly by the 'Just-in-time' (JIT) .NET compiler which translates the IL
into native code.

Now there exists a 64-bit JIT compiler which generates 64-bit native code
instructions from the IL code where relevant. How this might enhance the
capabilities of GPCP I am yet to find out.

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp

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