Launching fractals.dwscript.net
Happy new Year to all!
The fractals.dwscript.net is now launched to host the results of the recent Mandelbrot TeraPixel experiment. It’s a small website to centralizes browser, documentations, links and downloads.
There was also news of a FireMonkey client for the data set API.
And the Terapixel Became Four
The Christmas Mandelbrot Experiment is now nearing has achieved completion of Level 13, or a Four Terapixel image!
This will be the end of the experiment (at least temporarily) as the server is running out of storage space 🙂
A Terapixel Image for the DelphiWebScript Christmas!
As a step up from the previous Mandelbrot Set explorer, I’m running a Terapixel image experience for DWScript Christmas 2013.
This is again on the Mandelbrot set, and involves a massive step up in complexity from the previous version, this one isn’t just server-side computed, it’s “Grid Computed” 🙂 (more…)
MapFileStats v1.5 – Improved DCU Statistics
My small utility that gives binary size statistics from the Map file just got updated to version 1.5
This updates improves statistics gathered and reported for DCU file sizes, and introduces a small speedup.
DWScript Mandelbrot Explorer (with a twist)
The twist is that the computations are handled server-side, using DWScript JIT compiler, so exploration can be fairly fast and comfortable even on low-powered hardware, be it an iPad, a Smartphone or an old laptop.
Flush Windows File Cache
Here is a small utility I made whose purpose is to flush (empty) the Windows file cache. It can also flush and purge memory working sets, standby and modified lists.
It can be useful to reduce memory usage of a particular VM (on a host with dynamic memory) or for testing and bench-marking purposes.
Moving Hosts – Now Settled
A month ago I started experimenting with various VPS hosting solutions for this website. Well I now consider myself settled for the time being.
Here are a few of my findings for those that were interested. Nothing Delphi-related there.
Unicode Leftover Bug From Hell
Or in other words, before getting to the gory details, DWScript now works when compiled with {$HIGHCHARUNICODE ON} on a machine with Cyrillic code-page 1251.
DWScript was converted years ago to Unicode, and been working just fine.
But there was a leftover bug from that crossing of the Styx.
MapFileStats v1.4 – Now With More Details
MapFileStats v1.4 is now available, this version provides a lot more details about where the bytes in your executables come from. It also features improved visualization and performance.