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2010, Tuesday August 10
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Tuesday August 10, 09:19 - Pascal Programing
There will be an upcoming 64 bits Delphi compiler. Embarcadero promised it.
Florian (the architect of FPC) showed a first "Hello world" program for Win64 in March 2006.Here are some points on how you could make your code ready to compile under FPC 64 bits, therefore (I hope) under future Delphi 64 bits compiler.
2010, Friday July 30
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Friday July 30, 11:25 - Pascal Programing
As I wrote in a previous post, Delphi string, dynamic array and memory manager don't like multi-core CPU.
My proposal is to add a threadlocalvar keyword, to be used instead of var in your code, to mark some variables to be used in only the current thread. Then the compiler and RTL won't have to use the LOCK instruction, and the application will be MUCH faster in multi-thread environment.
2010, Thursday July 15
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Thursday July 15, 17:46 - Pascal Programing
If you're like me, you are proud of the new CPU your computer runs on - in my case a i7-720Q with 8 embedded cores...
But Delphi is not very multi-thread or multi-core friendly... guess why....
2010, Sunday March 28
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Sunday March 28, 12:20 - Pascal Programing
In a very interesting comment, PhiS spoke about the Mac OS X Stack Alignment problem, and the way asm code should be written for the future Cross Platform Delphi compiler. Here are some (hope without any Troll hidden) reflections I went through.
2010, Wednesday March 24
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Wednesday March 24, 10:10 - Open Source libraries
The Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 library file has been updated, and is now in version 1.2, released under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. It's mainly a bug issue fix.
2010, Tuesday March 23
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Tuesday March 23, 22:46 - Enhanced Delphi Run Time
After some speed debates occurred in the Delphi community, I've rewritten the _CopyRecord function of the system.pas unit, with speed in mind.
2010, Thursday March 18
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Thursday March 18, 07:54 - Open Source libraries
The Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 library file has been updated, and is now in version 1.1, released under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.
2010, Sunday March 14
By A.Bouchez on 2010, Sunday March 14, 15:17 - Open Source libraries
This LGPL-distributed unit allows very fast JPEG image decoding, using SSE/SSE2 pure assembly code. It is much faster than the standard jpeg.pas unit.
It's based on the great Dr. Manhattan's source code, from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegdec