Archive for July, 2006

Delphi Community meetings in Sweden

If you do not live in Sweden you can stop reading now…

I min nya roll på Borland som ”Evangelist” för Developer Tools Group i Norden ingår det bland annat att hålla kontakt med alla utvecklare. Både att lyssna på er feedback och prata ur ett teknikst perspektiv om våra utvecklingsverktyg, så vad kan vara lämpligare […]

Posted by Fredrik Haglund archive on July 25th, 2006 under Delphi, Interbase | 1 Comment »

Delphi on Rails?

There is a lot of hype around the open source project Ruby on Rails these days so I spent some time looking into the framework because I’m always curious about new technology. First impression is always important and I really liked the home page for Ruby on Rails for its simplicity and David Heinemeier Hansson’s […]

Posted by Fredrik Haglund archive on July 15th, 2006 under Delphi | 13 Comments »

Optimized Pascal compilation time

I was helping a customer to migrate from Delphi 5 to Delphi 2006 for some time ago. …

The size of the project was about a few hundred forms and half a million lines of code. It took 90 minutes to compile in D5 and even longer in D2006. What is going on here? …

In the end the recipe to fix this was rather simple. We reduced compiled time from 90 minutes to 50 seconds! And the linker could remove 100.000 lines of unused code. I was pretty pleased with myself that evening.

Posted by Fredrik Haglund archive on July 3rd, 2006 under Delphi | 15 Comments »

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