Hi,

..NET 1.x uses very unefficient way to store binary data to a resource stream
(e.g. .resources file). For example when framework stores System.Char or
System.Boolean it actually serializes the whole type and the value. As the
result it takes 20 to 30 bytes to store a single char or boolean value!!!!

VCL has been there 12 years and has always used only two bytes for boolean
and 2-3 to char.

Really amazing engineering from Microsoft!

Lucky for us MS finally learned and fixed this in .NET 2.x where boolean and
char are stored as primary data type (same was as VCL used 12 years ago!).

Why the hell MS took all the main software engineers from Borland 5-7 years
ago it did not utilize their expertize. My guess was that they just wanted
to kill Delphi that was and still is the most productive software
development tool.

Best regards,
Jaakko

Go rant on a Borland newsgroup and stop wasting our time. Many of us have
used Delphi extensively and decided that we prefer Visual Studio. Coming to
a .Net newsgroup and complaining about how .Net 1.x serializes data
certainly isn't going to do anything to change out minds.

--
Andrew Faust
andrew[at]andrewfaust.com
http://www.andrewfaust.com


"Jaakko Salmenius" <jaakko.salmenius (at) nospam gmail.com> wrote in
message news:u42vGbwGIHA.6044 (AT) TK2MSFTNGP04 (DOT) phx.gbl...

On 2007-10-30 19:03:22 -0700, "Andrew Faust" <andrew (AT) andrewfaust (DOT) com> said:

Please don't feed the trolls.

And yes, Jaakko is an obvious troll.

Yeah, I know. It's a bad habit I have. I like to respond to 411 scammers on
occasion too, just for the laugh.

--
Andrew Faust
andrew[at]andrewfaust.com
http://www.andrewfaust.com


"Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPeAdM (AT) NnOwSlPiAnMk (DOT) com> wrote