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Performance benchmark from Delphi 2010 to Delphi XE6
Andreano Lanusse
– Thomas Grubb from Words from a Delphi CodeSmith blog, did a fantastic job comparing performance from Delphi 2010 to XE6. His motivation around this benchmark was to validate Delphi Quality, Performance, and Stability (QPS) over the years, specially now where Embarcadero claims a lot of focus on ...
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Delphi XE6 32bits and Scimark
DelphiTools
– In a Google+ comment to my recent article about inlining in XE6, Leif Uneus posted results from Scimark. It appears that XE6 is about 30% slower than previous versions at least from XE5 to XE for 32bits floating point. Note that Scimark does not make use of inlining, but does make heavy use of ...
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TestInsight - unit testing like a pro
Delphi sorcery
– The time of teasing is finally over - today I want to show you what I have been working on over the past few weeks:TestInsight is an IDE plugin for Delphi (supporting XE and up) that will improve your unit test experience. It integrates nicely into your IDE removing the necessity to deal with some ...
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Why Delphi generics are annoying
Delphi sorcery
– First of all: I like generics, I love them. You can do all kinds of neat stuff with them... until they bite you. Then they crash your compiler which might make your IDE hang or actually generate wrong source code.So today I will talk about about the smaller or bigger annoyances of Delphi ...
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IDE Fix Pack 5.8 for 2009-XE7 released
Andy's Blog
– A new release of IDE Fix Pack for RAD Studio 2009-XE7 is available. The new version 5.8 is available for all versions including the versions that I marked “unsupported”. So all 2010, XE2-XE5 users can update from version 5.5 to 5.8 what gives them the “EditorLineEnd.ttr” patch. This release brings a ...
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WTF is a Future?
Malcolm Groves
– Of the abstractions introduced in the Parallel Programming Library, the IFuture<T> seems to be the one that many people have difficulty understanding. Both TTask and TParallel.For seem reasonably easy to understand conceptually, even if you don’t understand all the details. TTask is ...
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Dear everyone: Please stop using $IFDEF VERXXX
TURBU Tech
– I just checked out the source to a new project. Not going to name names because what I’m discussing is a pretty universal problem. This project had dependencies on several common Delphi open-source libraries, and it had a well-designed DPROJ file that got all the paths right and everything. ...
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My “Delphi Cookbook” has been published
Daniele Teti's programming blog
– Almost an year ago I started to write a book about Delphi for Packt Publishing. Today that book has been published. This book is a cookbook! That’s it, in 328 pages you will find useful (I hope) “recipes” for your day-by-day Delphi job. Topics of the book Create visually stunning ...
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Raspberry Pi 2, FreePascal, Lazarus and Delphi
OTAPI
– In this article, we’re going to take a look at the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, as well as how to acquire, build and install the very latest FreePascal compiler on and for the device, then the very latest Lazarus IDE to run on the device directly. These instructions will be step-by-step, assuming ...
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IDE Fix Pack 5.6 for XE6 released
Andy's Blog
– IDE Fix Pack version 5.6 adds support for RAD Studio XE6. All patches that are in version 5.5 for XE5 are also in 5.6 for XE6 except the patch for QC 111998 ($TDW macro used in Tools causes crash) that is fixed in XE6. XE6 introduces a project option to compile projects with the command line ...
