The Delphi Geek

I found Sleep Sort so ingenious (in the mad genius way) that I just had to implement it using the OmniThreadLibrary framework. The code ...

My article on lock-free vs. locking data queues was well-received but there were also some comments and complaints. To answer the critics (...

That is, if you are a C++Builder programmer and want to help an open source project. The problem with OmniThreadLibrary and C++Builder ...

For the past few days I was running tests on three different queue implementations – one lock-free , one based on Delphi’s TQueue<T> a...

When Chris Rolliston implemented a simple threaded queue class using TMonitor , I was quite ecstatic. Finally I will be able to compare my l...

Hierarchical data appears everywhere and most of the time it must be rebuilt from simple non-hierarchical storage. Think about mail, news...

One of the latest additions to the high-level OtlParallel constructs, Fork/Join, was implemented just before ADUG 2011 and presented there ...

High-level OmniThreadLibrary parallelism (i.e. the OtlParallel unit) is great when you are running mostly independent parts of code but wha...

While there’s a simple way to execute one-shot background threads with the low-level OTL API (by calling CreateTask), there is no such high-...

My presentation from ADUG 2011 is now online at http://www.thedelphigeek.com/p/presentations.html . Check out the handouts document as i...

This year’s Australia Delphi User Group symposium is a two day event with sessions in Melbourne and Sydney. The first of those – the Melbou...

You may know that lifetime ago I developed fairly successful Delphi profiler called GpProfile . You may also know that it kinda slipped in...

This just came in: IOmniTaskControl.Invoke(procedure begin … end) IOmniTaskControl.Invoke(procedure (const task: IOmniTask) begin …...

In the previous two installments I’ve tried to give a little insight into how OmniThreadLibrary ’s Parallel ForEach is implemented ( part 1 ...

I’m very excited to announce that OmniThreadLibrary will appear before the Australian public in this year’s ADUG Symposium ! This year’...

Step one Start Delphi XE. Step Two Create simple project.

In my last post , I’ve presented an overview of classes hiding behind the parallel for implementation. Today I’ll focus on the input part o...

Aeons ago I promised to write a blog post about all the magic that happens behind the scenes in Parallel.ForEach. That never happened (sorr...

A lifetime ago when I was still programming on two 1280 × 1024 monitors I’ve published a post about the IDE layout I was using at that time...

GpLists 1.49 : Implemented TGpGUIDList, a TGUID list. GpStructuredStorage 2.0c : Uses GpStreams instead of (deprecated) GpMemStr. Erik B...