The Delphi Geek

ITDevCon 2011 has closed its doors and I’m back at home, completely washed out. It was tiresome but it was also fun! All the sessions I’ve v...

Just few photos from the opening session … --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

David Heffernan found a nasty RTL bug in XE2 COM implementation. Is COM broken in XE2, and how might I work around it? I’ve found a work...

Thank you for listening to my CodeRage 6 presentation! I’m very sorry that there were some issues with the sound that were caused by network...

Keep in mind – my session on high-level OmniThreadLibrary stuff goes on air at 06:00 AM PDT / 15:00 CET.

From time to time I get a question on the OmniThreadLibrary   forum that could be of interest to other OmniThreadLibrary users. As I believ...

Tomorrow starts the CodeRage week! My presentation is scheduled for Friday, 21st, at 06:00 PDT / 15:00 CET, which is early for the West ...

Only three months since 2.1 and a new release is already here? What’s going on? I had to change some things to make OTL work in XE2 and al...

CodeRage 6 will start in ten days! Will you be there? I’ll be joining it for the sixth time as a listener and for the first time as presente...

FastMM is a wonderful memory manager, but it can slow down quite a lot when used in multithreading environment. While Pierre has implemente...

I know that XE2 on Win64, OS/X and iOS is all the rage but some of us (or is it most of us?) still have to make living in the Win32 world. T...

An interesting problem appeared on StackOverflow shortly ago – how to generate large quantities of data as fast as possible and store it i...

While the biggest focus on the Pipeline improvement was on the exception handling, there were also some changes in the basic functionality....

I have known for a long time that there’s a potential race condition between two writers in TOmniBlockingCollection but I thought that it d...

Parallel.Join has started its life as a very simple construct. class procedure Join( const task1, task2: TProc); overload ; class proce...

All users of the 2.1 release, please download this very important hotfix . There was a nasty bug in OtlEventMonitor where FreeAndNil was c...

The main focus in the next OmniThreadLibrary release is on exception handling in high-level constructs (i.e. the OtlParallel unit). The fir...

OtlParallel unit defines four overloaded Async methods in OTL v2.1: class procedure Async(task: TProc; taskConfig: IOmniTaskConfig = nil...

Yes, it is ready. Get the ZIP or check it from SVN . If you’re following the trunk, do the update. You’ll actually get more than 2.1 as I...

After a long long wait (sorry folks, due to events out of my control this release took many months longer that I expected) OmniThreadLibrary...