Refactoring DWScript dynamic arrays

After reaching initial stages of the x86-64 JIT, work on a long overdue enhancement of the DWScript engine has started: refactoring how dynamic arrays are implemented.

One of the goals when the 32bit JIT was introduced was to edge out the Delphi 32bits compiler, which was not too complicated as Delphi was using the FPU, so merely using SSE2 at the time was enough. But the Delphi 64bits compiler makes good use of SSE2, so the only way to edge it out would be to leverage AVX2 and vectorisation.

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New pre-release cefHtmlSnapshot v0.1.88

A new v0.1.88 pre-release has been posted on the cefHtmlSnapshot repository.

This version is based of latest DCEF4Delphi, and brings up the Chromium Embedded Version up to CEF 88.1.4 (Chromium 88.0.4324.96).

There are no other active changes changes at the moment. A version which bundles everything into a solid executable is under investigation, but this is not active/usable yet.

DWScript Win64 JIT work in progress

With the new year, work finally started on getting a Windows 64bit Just-In-Time compiler up and running for DWScript.

The repository on Bitbucket and the mirror on GitHub both already hold first working elements. At the moment unit tests are passing, though with effective JIT for only a smaller subset of features than for the 32 bit JIT.
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Announcing cefHtmlSnapshot

A first v0.1 preview of cefHtmlSnapshot is now available at https://github.com/EricGrange/cefHtmlSnapshot.

This is a command-line utility that aims to take image (PNG, JPG) or PDF snapshots of an HTML website or file, and fill in the “void” left by the abandon of Qt webkit tools like phantomjs or wkhtml2pdf. While those old utilities still work, they do not support modern web standards, and any tidbit of ECMA6 will have them stumble.
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TurboJPEG library rocks !

Units to support the TurboJPEG library is now available in the DWScript repository, you can find the relevant files in the Libraries\GraphicsLib folder, they have been tested with Delphi 10.3 in both Win32 and Win64. The DLLs are those of the latest 2.05 version.

The TurboJPEG library (aka “libjpeg-turbo”) provides a fast implementation of the libjpeg API, but the files here target the TurboJPEG core, rather than the libjpeg compatibility layer (see its documention).
The TurboJPEG API is less rich, but quite simple to use and very convenient.