Re: Relational Database Comparison

From: Paul <paul_at_not.a.chance.ie>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:53:07 -0000
Message-ID: <MPG.1a5fff121ae30ae898986c@news1.eircom.net>

srielau_at_ca.eye-bee-m.com says...

> I always thought a program is written in a language and not a compiler
> brand.

Hmm... that's true in theory, but not in practice. AFAIK, Micro$oft has added in optimisations into their C++ compiler that are non-standard, and again AFAIK, before Interbase was bought by Borland, the IB developers made use of some of these advantages, and they couldn't go back - a bit like the giraffe's tongue!

> DB2 is written in C/C++ and compiled on whatever compiler is available
> on a given platform.

So, you are saying that DB2 code would work "out of the box" with any given C/C++ compiler on any given platform? I doubt it.

Paul...

> Serge

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Received on Fri Jan 02 2004 - 17:53:07 CST