Month: January 2009
Version 0.2.1 of HelperLib
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…
Read More »HelperLib 0.2 released!
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…
Read More »Forcing RTTI on record types
While developing the “Type Support” module for the generics library I’m working on I’ve encountered a little problem – the compiler will not emit RTTI information for the records. Actually that isn’t entirely true – RTTI will be…
Read More »Pointer to String casts
This post describes how to avoid a recent mistake I’ve seen in a Delphi application related to “Pointer to String” casting. Consider the following example: In this example an untyped pointer was allocated with 128 bytes of memory,…
Read More »Delphi Prism: DelphiString
Was just reading the source code for ShineOn (the RTL implementation in Delphi Prism) and found an interesting piece: DelphiString (in /ShineOn.RTL/DelphiString.pas). What is it? It is a class that tries to replicate the behavior of the Win32…
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