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

> On 2007-10-30 19:03:22 -0700, "Andrew Faust" <and***@andrewfaust.com>
> said:
>
>> 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.
>
> Please don't feed the trolls.
>
> And yes, Jaakko is an obvious troll.
>