Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers
Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch.
Where do they come from?
What would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
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!
Not in (interpreted) Kansas anymore
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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DWScript happenings
This is a belated news update, with only the highlights:
Delphi array constructors performance (or lack of)
In Delphi you can initialize a dynamic array in two ways, either manually or via the Create magic constructor
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SamplingProfiler 1.8.0
Version 1.8.0 of SamplingProfiler is now available.
The options dialog now support Delphi XE2 & Delphi XE3 search/browse paths, other changes are only indirect fixes/improvements related to the components and libraries used in SamplingProfiler.
Thirteen features of DWScript
After having survived the Mayan apocalypse and just before the year ends, and the US economy falls from the fiscal cliff into the pit of recession, here is a quick look at thirteen features of DWScript, so you don’t come into 2013 unaware 🙂
Pascal open-source projects trending… Up!
Common Unit Tests for Delphi / FreePascal
Serg recent wrote an introduction to unit testing under Lazarus, showing how everything is there, but just that little bit “off” because of different unit names between FPCUnit and DUnit.
Not being a fan of ifdef, the prospect of having unit tests “uses” sections littered with ifdef did not attract me, so I made a little adapter unit to keep the “uses” sections clean.
Poor EULA clause reverted?
Unofficial information from David Champion
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=76231
“In fact we do listen to our customers and make representations to our developer group in the USA. Subsequently the EULA changes you were worried about have been dropped altogether.”
From an Embarcadero employee in Europe.
Let’s see if it gets officially confirmed by an Embarcadero representative or a final version of the EULA…
Edit: confirmed and the clause is no longer present in the release XE3 EULA.