It would be more adequate to say that with Delphi you can do anything you can do in C/C++ and get practically the same performance. Anyone who has tried to write code that does advanced bit fiddling or arithmetics in C# or Java should be well aware of what I am talking about.
That is not entirely relevant. You rarely have to dereference a Delphi object variable in the same way you would dereference a e.g. a char* variable in normal C/C++ code.
In practice, the fact that Delphi object variables are pointers to instances just means that object assignments are not deep copy operations, like they were with old style object pascal objects.
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It would be more adequate to say that with Delphi you can do anything you can do in C/C++ and get practically the same performance. Anyone who has tried to write code that does advanced bit fiddling or arithmetics in C# or Java should be well aware of what I am talking about.
That is not entirely relevant. You rarely have to dereference a Delphi object variable in the same way you would dereference a e.g. a char* variable in normal C/C++ code.
In practice, the fact that Delphi object variables are pointers to instances just means that object assignments are not deep copy operations, like they were with old style object pascal objects.