DelphiTools, SamplingProfiler and General Delphi News
Here is a summary of recent changes, language highlights are initial support for sets and a new Sort() method for dynamic arrays.
Apart form Linq & LLVM libraries which were previously mentioned, Brian Frost made multiple updates to the IDE Dialog. There were numerous other minor fixes and improvements, related to stability, performance and compatibility with Delphi code.
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Graphics32 is a rich, high-performance 32bits graphics library for Delphi, with extensive capability. This showcase was submitted by Christian-W Budde, who is an active contributor to the Graphics32 project.
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: