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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

By : Primož Gabrijelčič
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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

By: Primož Gabrijelčič

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, iOS, and now Linux with RAD Studio 10.2. If you know how to use the features of Delphi, you can easily create scalable applications in no time. This Learning Path begins by explaining how to find performance bottlenecks and apply the correct algorithm to fix them. You'll brush up on tricks, techniques, and best practices to solve common design and architectural challenges. Then, you'll see how to leverage external libraries to write better-performing programs. You'll also learn about the eight most important patterns that'll enable you to develop and improve the interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. As you progress, you'll also delve into improving the performance of your code and mastering cross-platform RTL improvements. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to address common design problems and feel confident while building scalable projects. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Delphi High Performance by Primož Gabrijel?i? Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi by Primož Gabrijel?i?
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

When to parallelize the code?

Before you start parallelizing the code, you should understand whether the particular code is a good candidate for parallelization or not. There are some typical examples where parallelization is particularly simple, and there are some where it is really hard to implement.

One of the most common examples is executing long parts of code in the main thread. In Delphi, the main thread is the only one responsible for managing the user interface. If it is running some long task and not processing user interface events, then the user interface is blocked. We can solve this problem by moving the long task into a background thread, which will allow the main thread to manage the user interface. A responsive program makes for a happy user, as I like to say.

Another problem that is usually relatively simple to solve is enabling a server application to handle...