
Generics are a clever way of writing some code once, then reuse it for several types.
They are like templates, or compiler-time shortcuts for type definitions.
In the last weeks, we added a new mormot.core.collections.pas unit, which features:
- JSON-aware
IList<>
List Storage; - JSON-aware
IKeyValue<>
Dictionary Storage.
In respect to Delphi or FPC RTL generics.collections
, this unit uses interfaces as variable holders, and leverage them to reduce the generated code as much as possible, as the Spring4D 2.0 framework does, but for both Delphi and FPC. It publishes TDynArray
and TSynDictionary
high-level features like indexing, sorting, JSON/binary serialization or thread safety as Generics strong typing.
Resulting performance is great, especially for its enumerators, and your resulting executable size won't blow up as with the regular RTL unit.