[fpc-pascal] FPC and JAVA

[Matt Emson]

Krishna wrote:
> Another thing, the code produced for the winemulator target is x86
> code or arm code?
Depends. The Visual Studio 2003 emulator is x86. Based on the VirtualPC 
core product. The Visual Studio 2005.. um.. I don't remember. I know 
Microsoft provide an ARM emulator that runs dog slow. I had the emulator 
and WM6 images about 5 months ago in my last job. Testing against the 
x86 emulator is only good for quick tests. Nothing beats debugging on a 
real device. If you pony up the cash, you can do that with VS2003 or VS2005.

Let me just point out.. and this isn't a troll, it's my own experience: 
The end user does not care what your application is written in. Just so 
long as it works. As such, I would recommend Compact Framework and 
managed code for any Windows Mobile device. The memory footprint is 
minimal - all WM5 devices I have used (and we used quite a few brands) 
have the Compact Framework in ROM. Speed wise, it's fast. It doesn't 
crawl at all. Given the significant bugs Microsoft had in their native 
code  SQL Server CE 2.0 - as an example of native code on mobile 
devices,  C# and  CF.NET  make life far, far, far simpler. I found it 
cut development time down by between 50% and 70%. I can't even look at 
old code written using  C anymore. Shudder.

As for the FPC compiler targeting CLR.. It could be done. But why would 
you need to? Use Chrome instead. Why reinvent the wheel. I see no 
advantage in porting Legacy Pascal code to a new disparate platform. 
Especially when said platform does things a lot more pleasurably.

M