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		Kiro on Aug 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Choose Delphi > Delphi is compiled to native code, so the performance is great. Without the overhead and inconsistencies introduced by a Virtual Machine (garbage collection, etc.) Why aren't all compiled languages compiled to native code?

jannes on Aug 1, 2017 [–]

Interoperability.

Native code only runs on a single processor architecture: The one it was compiled for.

Often you want your programs to run on multiple processor architectures without compiling binaries for all of them in advance.

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