delphi-xe2

The reasons to upgrade from Delphi 2009

I have made the question "community wiki" - it is subjective. I have upgraded to Delphi 2009 because of unicode support. I have found the anonymous methods a very interesting and useful language feature, I can't say the same about generics. The generics seemed important for me before the upgrade to Delphi 2009, but I have never used the...

Floating point support in 64-bit compiler

What should we expect from the floating point support in 64-bit Delphi compiler? Will 64-bit compiler use SSE to implement floating point arithmetic? Will 64-bit compiler support the current 80-bit floating type (Extended)? These questions are closely related, so I ask them as a single question. ...