It seems the more you look, the more you find. There are a few interesting points in how strings are handled in Delphi; I’ve talked before about the particularities of String type in Delphi, so I’ll not touch…

What I miss the most from C# is the lock keyword. Unfortunately Delphi doesn’t (yet) have such a “feature” so we’re stuck making calls to synchronization objects manually. It’s not a big problem actually but can get quite…

The title is probably a bit misleading. I’m not going to talk about the “future of Delphi” rather about the concept of “future evaluation” in Delphi. You might have heard about the Delphi Prism product that Embarcadero/CodeGear is…

This post will be a short one. Just giving a general recommendation for people doing String processing in Delphi – use PChar or ^Char for that. I have made a simple test program that reverses a very big…

Hi folks, in today’s post I will continue with reference counting specifics of Delphi in the particular case of Strings. We’ll start with a small example: What will the output of this program be? The obvious result (the…

I’ve heard this phrase a few times in regards to Delphi’s reference counting mechanics. Before continuing with this post please note — Delphi doesn’t have a Garbage Collector (as Java or .NET)! It uses Reference Counting as part…

It’s probably not news anymore but Delphi 2009 supports anonymous methods out of the box. To be able to support them, CodeGear developers added a new type of a “pointer to a method” called a managed method reference:…

There is a bug in Generics.Defaults unit in Delphi 2009. If you read my previous post: Generic Defaults you should know already about the “3 bytes long” data types and how are those passed as const parameters to…