The Delphi Geek

Writing code ain’t that hard a job. Writing correct code, well that’s a much harder venture. And what can I say about writing correct m...

On July 27th, I’ll be speaking for the Virtual Delphi Users Group . The topic will be “Parallel programming with OmniThreadLibrary ”. Be awa...

As we found out, the system thread pool in Windows 2000 (plus XP and 2003) is woefully inadequate for any serious use. It seems that its de...

Because YOU asked for it … my units are now available on Google Code .

1) Lots of things fixed in DSiWin32 and great thanks to Christian Wimmer for pointing out the problems and suggesting some solutions. 2) ...

Unlike C and derivatives , Delphi is speedy … 174.684 lines per second. What’s your compile speed?

Future of T, that is. Or, in Delphi syntax, TFuture<T>. Yesterday I wrote about futures in OmniThreadLibrary 2.0 (supported only in ...

Futures in the OTL were not planned – they just happened. In fact, they are so new that you won’t find them in the SVN. (Don’t worry, they...

You may have noticed that I’ve been strangely silent for the past two months. The reason for that is OmniThreadLibrary version 2. [And lots ...

DSiWin32 1.55 Implemented DSiHasElapsed64 and DSiElapsedTime64. Implemented DSiLogonAs and DSiVerifyPassword. DSiGetProcAddress...

Monkeys work harder when they are not rewarded . People do, too. Daniel H. Pink [ wikipedia ] collected the evidence about that fact and ...

Blaise Pascal #11 is out containing the third installment of my multithreading series, this time dealing with the synchronisation.

I’d just like to point out to all parallel-loving programmers that Parallel Programming with .NET blog posted a series of  11 articles (more...

I put my eyes on Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management quite some time ago but as it was quite expensive (...

The tenth issue (congratulations!) of the Blaise Pascal Magazine is out and in the inside you can find the second part of my “multithreadin...

As the Google is phasing out ftp publishing of Blogger blogs, I had to move away from my trustworthy host at 17slon.com. From yesterday, Th...

As we saw yesterday , CopyRecord can be a source of substantial slowdown if records are used extensively. I can see only way to improve the ...

When I read TValue is very slow! at TURBU Tech blog earlier today, I immediately wondered about how fast is TOmniValue (the basic data-exch...

OmniThreadLibrary 1.05a has just been released. It is available via SVN or as a ZIP archive . This is mostly a bugfix release: Bug...

That all sounds easy, but how can we combine the windows (forms-based) aspect of an application with something completely different, for ...