It’s All about .NET
Delphi 8 produces applications that run completely within the context of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Therefore, the capabilities and features of Delphi 8’s compiler must be subject to the capabilities and features of the underlying .NET Framework. This notion might be vaguely disconcerting for those coming into the .NET from the native code world. A native code compiler can essentially do anything it wants—its capabilities limited only by the desires of the compiler vendor. In .NET development, literally everything one might do—even something as trivial as adding two integers together—boils down to the compiler generating code that manipulates features and types of the .NET Framework.
Rather than producing native code, a ...
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