Here are a few findings on Multi-Read Exclusive-Write Synchronizer from a recent upgrade of DWScript‘s GlobalVar functions.
I ran some comparisons between a plain Critical Section, Delphi’s TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer and Windows Slim Reader/Writer Lock, of which an implementation was added to the dwsXPlatform unit.
I’ve activated a small random pass phrase secure service based on DWScript Web Server.
You can reach it at
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.
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.
