How fast are mobile CPUs these days? Well, they are pretty fast processors.
While some still consider that x86 is ten times faster than ARM, that is just not the case anymore these days, the difference is much smaller, and closer to just two times if you compare a regular smartphone to a regular laptop/desktop.
Weak references and their zeroing is managed in Delphi NextGen through a global hash table, with a global lock, see Arnaud Bouchez take on it:
Performance-issue-in-NextGen-ARC-model
Also apart from the global locking which itself is bad enough, there are a couple further performance issues:
What client-side platforms do you develop for? With Delphi/FreePascal or with other tools.
This is a small poll to gauge the audience of this website, check all applicable, but please limit yourself to those you personally develop for (be it work or hobby), not your company or colleagues.
Now for a bit of hypothetical polling! thinking on the generics/templates syntax, one can’t quite shake the feeling Delphi got the C#/C++ generics/templates syntax. The < and > can’t be read out loud, and just look like an out of place reuse of the comparison symbols.
When “record with methods” were introduced, an important feature was overlooked: mutability.
This article discusses the problem, and introduces a possible syntax extension to solve it. Ideas & comments welcome!
Zarko Gajic recently reposted Kostas Symeonidis’s Maze, this is an old code (2004) that generates a random maze using Prim’s algorithm and solves it.
Delphi an an ITE for localization (of which I’m not a fan), we’ve been using something very similar to gnu gettext where I work (and I like it), what other String or screen localization tools have you been using and recommending?
You can vote for multiple options, and suggest new ones in the comments!
In Delphi, you can overload functions, but doing so requires using the overload directive explicitly.
The following code declares two functions with the same name, one that will be invoked if you pass an integer, another that will be invoked you pass a string:
In a now infamous and enormous thread I won’t name, Allen Bauer dropped a bomb:
<bomb>Oh, and strings may become immutable and 0-based
…</bomb>