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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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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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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 $IFDEF VERXXX
TURBU Tech
– I just checked out the source to a new project. Not going to name names because what I’m discussing is a pretty universal problem. This project had dependencies on several common Delphi open-source libraries, and it had a well-designed DPROJ file that got all the paths right and everything. ...
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My “Delphi Cookbook” has been published
Daniele Teti's programming blog
– Almost an year ago I started to write a book about Delphi for Packt Publishing. Today that book has been published. This book is a cookbook! That’s it, in 328 pages you will find useful (I hope) “recipes” for your day-by-day Delphi job. Topics of the book Create visually stunning ...
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IDE Fix Pack 5.6 for XE6 released
Andy's Blog
– IDE Fix Pack version 5.6 adds support for RAD Studio XE6. All patches that are in version 5.5 for XE5 are also in 5.6 for XE6 except the patch for QC 111998 ($TDW macro used in Tools causes crash) that is fixed in XE6. XE6 introduces a project option to compile projects with the command line ...
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Every Android API for Delphi
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– Delphi XE5′s support for Android includes many of the most common Android APIs either wrapped in nice cross platform libraries and component or accessible directly via the JNI wrappers. The rest can be accessed by creating headers to expose them. The new JNI Bridge makes this calling of the ...
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New language feature in XE7
Delphi sorcery
– Nope, not the dynamic array enhancement that everyone talked about already.In fact I am going to show you something that I haven't seen anyone talking about yet.It wasn't even mentioned on the official XE7 shows and the reason probably is because it is not been finished completely as in used in ...
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Delphi and #Code2014
Delphi-losophy
– Hey, Delphi ended up really well in the #code2014 survey. Sure, it’s self-selected and thus statistically dubious, but it definitely is nice to see Delphi in ninth position with a prominent circle. (If you add Delphi and Pascal together, we’d be in sixth place. Yes, I can see the ...
