Tag: dehl

Generics + System.Move = Kaboom!

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It’s probably not a news anymore that the Move method (in System unit) should not be used to move chunks of memory that contain references to managed type (like String, Interface of dynamic arrays). By moving only the…

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How To: Creating a custom Variant type

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In this post I will detail on how to create a custom Variant for your data type. First of all, the help should be pretty useful in this case, but it if doesn’t help much, there is always…

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Version 0.2.1 of HelperLib

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Just released the “fix” version for HelperLib: 0.2.1. Major highlights: Improved the performance for IntToStr functions for “big numbers”. (From 25 minutes to 17 seconds for a 256^10000 number). A BCD-izer algorithm was used to create a BCD…

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HelperLib 0.2 released!

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I have finally released the version 0.2 of the HelperLib library. If you’ are interested in using generics in your Delphi 2009 applications, you might actually be interested in taking a look at the library. What can you…

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