DelphiTools, SamplingProfiler and General Delphi News
Very experimental support for LLVM in DWScript is now in the googlecode repository, thanks to the efforts of Christian-W Budde.
This is the beginning of the opening of new realms of possibilities for DWS!
LLVM support is currently centered around jit compilation, and at the moment doesn’t extend much beyond the needs of the Mandelbrot demo (see below for what is supported right now).
Here are the main DWS news items for May 2012
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The second Smart Context 2013 has been announced! As with the previous round, first prize is a tablet device of your own choice (up to USD 750). This time the theme is “Game Development”
This is a practical poll question, what would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
What would you like to see most and foremost, and would most have a use for?
To force you to choose, you can only pick two items!
For a few weeks now, an experimental JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. A more detailed article into the hows and whats and WTFs will come later.
Consider this article as an extended teaser, and a sort of call for test cases, benchmarks and eyeballs on the source code.
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Answering the call for showcases, Steffen Binas prepared a very nice set of screenshots for AquaSoft‘s Slide Show impressive product, which went far beyond the minimal requirement, so I’m posting a full-blown article about it. Following is the presentation of their software and how DWScript is used inside it.
When you need a powerful showcase I’d bet AquaSoft SlideShow is the one: http://www.aquasoft.de/diashow
Despite the simple name of the application it’s very powerful, just have look at the trailer video created completely with it.
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DWScript COM Connector has just received a spring cleanup, as it had grown a bit mouldy over the last years. The COM Connector optionally gives scripts direct access to ActiveX and COM objects.
As part of the cleanup, it now support IEnumVARIANT and ComVariantArray can now be enumerated as well with “for in“.
This is a belated news update, with only the highlights:
Object Pascal does allow binding a property to a field for direct read/writer, but we all have seen properties that required a slightly more complex getter or setter, and that usually meant a method for both. DWScript (svn trunk) & Smart Pascal (1.1) now support property expressions and statements, so the syntax is extended to allow:
property Name : Type read (expression) write (expression|statement)
Under the hood, the compiler will generate an unnamed getter or setter method when appropriate.
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