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Borland Commitment to IDE


2005-11-15 02:45:29 AM
cppbuilder78
--begin rant--
I saw this article headline:
Borland eyes development services as IDE revenue drops
www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,105866,00.html?source=NLT_XTR&nid=105866
and I thought "Well, duh, the way Borland has been mediocre in it's
support of a high-class product, it's not surprising their revenue
has dropped".
How long has it been since BCB 6 was released? I installed
it April 2002, so it's been been about 4 years. How can
they expect any revenue? When Kylix was first
announced I thought this was going to be a package
I would transition to. However, it turned out to be
a package with too little features compared to BCB.
I hoped it would be a 3rd IDE package alongside Delphi
and BCB. It was obvious early on that that was not
going to be the case
I have always found the support for BCB frustrating. When
I came up against a weirdness or limitation I would have to
find a workaround. This is generally with respect to database
access and the associated components. With only full support
for Interbase and a cursory support for old versions of MySQL,
etc., it made it difficult to use BCB.
For those that know BCB inside and out and have a large
support staff, it's easier, but for a one-man shop it's difficult
to deal with all the quirks. I was reading the thread from
a few weeks ago: "alarmed at how broken BCB 6 is!!!"
I could relate to the frustration.
Though DeXter looks intriguing, I'm not sure whether
Borland has changed in it's mediocre support. But by
the fact that BCB will have the improvements from the
last 4 years of Delphi releases, perhaps it'll be surprised
(if I decide to buy it).
--end-rant--
 
 

Re:Borland Commitment to IDE

"johnH" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
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--begin rant--
I saw this article headline:
Borland eyes development services as IDE revenue drops

www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,105866,00.html?source=NLT_XTR&nid=105866
Sort of strange since all indications point to dexter being an attempt at
a better IDE. I haven't heard of many non-IDE enhancement/fixes.
 

Re:Borland Commitment to IDE

"Duane Hebert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
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Sort of strange since all indications point to dexter being
an attempt at a better IDE. I haven't heard of many
non-IDE enhancement/fixes.
There have been several non-IDE enhancements. Overall performance is much
better not just in the IDE but in the VCL and RTL, and there some fixes and
things in the compiler as well.
Gambit
 

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Re:Borland Commitment to IDE

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
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"Duane Hebert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
news:4378ed3d$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM ...

>Sort of strange since all indications point to dexter being
>an attempt at a better IDE. I haven't heard of many
>non-IDE enhancement/fixes.

There have been several non-IDE enhancements. Overall performance is much
better not just in the IDE but in the VCL and RTL, and there some fixes
and things in the compiler as well.
Thanks Remy. Is this documented anywhere?
 

Re:Borland Commitment to IDE

"Duane Hebert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
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Thanks Remy. Is this documented anywhere?
Not officially, because the product has not been released yet. I'm just
stating what I heard others say publically at DevCon.
Gambit
 

Re:Borland Commitment to IDE

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Thanks Remy. Is this documented anywhere?
There's a new memory manager, and the utilization of FastCode as well. I
tried the new memory manager (FastMM) and fastcode on BCB 6, and it was a
huge improvement. The only thing is BCB 6 doesn't always work with the
memory manager, but if you can get it to work, you can expect up to 3 times
speed improvements in certain apps (I benchmarked it on an application that
simply allocates and free memory, just to have a feel of its speed). On a
multithreaded / multiCPU / Hyperthreading environment, it's even faster.
Do a google on FastCode and FastMM.
Anyway, if you're interested to find out more, you can listen to the audio
recordings from the 24h of Dexter:
bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33368,00.html
"Pierre talks about the new memory manager in DeXter. He discusses backward
compatibility, the new features, as well as the differences in behavior
between the old and new memory managers. He will also give a technical
insight into the inner workings of the new memory manager. John discusses
the Fastcode project: What it is, who it is, the history behind it, and the
contribution that it has made (and continues to make) to Delphi and the
Delphi developer community. He also mentions some of the improved runtime
library functions that were developed by the Fastcode project and are now
incorporated into DeXter."