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Delphi High Performance

You're reading from   Delphi High Performance Build fast Delphi applications using concurrency, parallel programming and memory management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625456
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Primož Gabrijelčič Primož Gabrijelčič
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. About Performance 2. Fixing the Algorithm FREE CHAPTER 3. Fine-Tuning the Code 4. Memory Management 5. Getting Started with the Parallel World 6. Working with Parallel Tools 7. Exploring Parallel Practices 8. Using External Libraries 9. Best Practices 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, I touched on two very different topics. First, I looked at responsive user interfaces and how to make them faster and then I continued with the concept of caching. That topic was introduced with a simple example, followed by a fully featured cache implementation that you can use in your programs.

At the end, I returned to the example SlowCode program from Chapter 1, About Performance. First, I used some detective work to find out what it really does, which allowed me to improve it a lot. The code now processes a million numbers in mere milliseconds and not minutes as the original program did.

In the next chapter, I'll focus on optimizing the code on a smaller level. We will look at various Delphi language and RTL elements and you'll learn which parts of the language and system libraries can behave slower than one would expect and what...

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Delphi High Performance
Published in: Feb 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788625456
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