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TInterlockedHelper for Delphi interfaces: Spring.Reactive.pas

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/25

Reminder so self: [WayBack] sglienke / Spring4D / source / Source / Reactive / Spring.Reactive.pas — Bitbucket fragments:

type
  TInterlocked = SyncObjs.TInterlocked;
  TInterlockedHelper = class helper for TInterlocked // TODO: move to Spring.pas
    class function CompareExchange<T: IInterface>(var Target: T; const Value, Comparand: T): T; overload; static;
    class function Exchange<T: IInterface>(var Target: T; const Value: T): T; overload; static;
  end;


{$REGION 'TInterlockedHelper'}

class function TInterlockedHelper.CompareExchange<T>(var Target: T;
  const Value, Comparand: T): T;
begin
  Result := Default(T);
  PPointer(@Result)^ := CompareExchange(PPointer(@Target)^, PPointer(@Value)^, PPointer(@Comparand)^);
  if PPointer(@Result)^ = PPointer(@Comparand)^ then
  begin
    if Assigned(Value) then
      Value._AddRef;
  end
  else
    if Assigned(Result) then
      Result._AddRef;
end;

class function TInterlockedHelper.Exchange<T>(var Target: T;
  const Value: T): T;
begin
  Result := Default(T);
  PPointer(@Result)^ := Exchange(PPointer(@Target)^, PPointer(@Value)^);
  if Assigned(Value) then
    Value._AddRef;
end;

{$ENDREGION}a

–jeroen

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Which encoding failure did encode “vóór” into “v3/43/4r”? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24

From quite some time ago, but still very relevant as encoding issues keep occurring:

A while ago, I saw the text “v3/43/4r” in a document.I know it comes from “vóór” (the acute accent emphasises in Dutch), and wonder which encoding failure was applied to get this wrong.

Source: [WayBack] Which encoding failure did encode “vóór” into “v3/43/4r”? – Stack Overflow

From the [WayBack] answer by rodrigo:

  • ó: is U+00F3, and occupies the same codepoint (0xF3) in a lot of different encodings (most ISO-8859-* and most western Windows-*).
  • In CP850 the codepint 0xF3 is ¾ (U+00BE), that is the three-quarters character. It is the same in other, less used, codepages (CP775, CP856, CP857, CP858).
  • The ¾ is sometimes transliterated to 3/4 when the character is not directly available.

And there you are! “vóór” -> “v¾¾r” -> “v3/43/4r”.

The first part (ó -> ¾) is the usual corruption of ANSI vs. OEM codepages in the Western Windows versions (in my country ANSI=Windows-1252, OEM=CP850). You can see it easily creating a file with NOTEPAD, writing vóór and dumping it in a command prompt with type.

–jeroen

Posted in CP850, Development, Encoding, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »

Delphi memory allocators and configuration notes in multi-threaded environments with high allocation/deallocation rates

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20

From an interesting discussion at [Archive.is/WayBack] FaceBook: Delphi developer thread by Jarto Tarpio with some measurements by Jarto Tarpio and André Mussche.

  • Manipulation of strings and lists in Delphi have high memory allocation/deallocation rates, so HTTP related services with high call rates are affected more than regular services
  •  FastMM:
    • conditional defines that can help are NeverSleepOnThreadContention, UseSwitchToThread, and UseReleaseStack then measure.
    • has one huge advantage: It’s very, very good at keeping memory fragmentation at bay
    • default settings are for applications that use lots of CPU, but have no really high memory allocation/deallocation rates
    • has very good debugging facilities
    • Under FullDebugMode address space is never released back to the operating system so once the address space has been exhausted there is very little room to manoeuvre.
  • TCMalloc:
    • is very good at multi-threaded memory management with high allocation/deallocation rates
    • needs to be persuaded to releases memory to the OS:
      it only releases to the system under two occasions: Freeing another part of the memory, or asking it to release all parts marked as freed.

    • has no debugging facilities

The differences make it a challenge to integrate in your development and deployment process: because of the debugging facilities, you’d like FastMM in all your environments, but TCMalloc in multi-threaded environments with high allocation/deallocation rates.

One possibility is to have your CI environment deliver both in all stages, run all tests on both, then choose the final one depending on your run-time configuration.

That gives a burden on configuring your Continuous Integration, but the gain might outweigh this cost.

Relevant links from the Facebook thread:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, FastMM, Software Development | 5 Comments »

More great free Python books

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20

A while ago I wrote about Until 20171201 you can get free access to “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”?.

That book is still free. And these great books are too:

Via: [WayBack] Cracking Codes with Python by @AlSweigart teaches complete beginners how to program in Python. The book features the source code to several ciphers and … – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch | Fabian Reinartz

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20

Long read but very much worth it: [WayBack] Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch | Fabian Reinartz.

On using the file systems strengths for a flexible time series database that is both fast to write, and read millions of data points per second.

via:

Similarly interesting: [WayBack] Translations: This article was translated to Simplified Chinese by Xiong Duo and to Korean by Matt Lee (이 성욱). Introduction I want to make solid-state

–jeroen

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NuGet: migrate from packages.config to PackageReference with 3 clicks

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/19

Since I often forget to cleanup some bits of a migration: [WayBack] Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks:

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Mad With PowerShell

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/19

This is such a cool blog: Mad With PowerShell (Tim Curwick’s PowerShell blog, tips and tricks, tools and techniques, explanations and explorations).

I bumped into it by finding these two:

What I like most is that it gives great insight on how and why the internals of PowerShell work the way they do, and how to use that to your advantage.

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Does anyone knows a existing implementation of bcrypt or scrypt for delphi?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/19

For my link archive: [WayBack] Does anyone knows a existing implementation of bcrypt or scrypt for delphi? – Fabian S. Biehn – Google+:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Encryption, Power User, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

linux – Bash: Command grouping (&&, ||, …) – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/18

Excellent answer at [WayBack] linux – Bash: Command grouping (&&, ||, …) – Stack Overflow by Charles Duffy:

Operator precedence for && and || is strictly left-to-right.

Thus:

pwd; (ls) || { cd .. && ls student/; }  && cd student || cd / && cd ;

…is equivalent to…

pwd; { { { (ls) || { cd .. && ls student/; }; } && cd student; } || cd /; } && cd ; }

…breaking that down graphically:

pwd; {                                      # 1
       {                                    # 2
         { (ls) ||                          # 3
                   { cd .. &&               # 4
                              ls student/;  # 5
                   };                       # 6
         } && cd student;                   # 7
       } || cd /;                           # 8
     } && cd ;                              # 9
  1. pwd happens unconditionally
  2. (Grouping only)
  3. ls happens (in a subshell) unconditionally.
  4. cd .. happens if (3) failed.
  5. ls student/ happens if (3) failed and (4) succeeded
  6. (Grouping only)
  7. cd student happens if either (3) succeeded or both (4) and (5) succeeded.
  8. cd / happens if either [both (3) and one of (4) or (5) failed], or [(7) failed].
  9. cd happens if (7) occurred and succeeded, or (7) occurred and succeeded.

Using explicit grouping operators is wise to avoid confusing yourself. Avoiding writing code as hard to read as this is even wiser.

–jeroen

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Some interesting Delphi MVVM posts…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/18

Via [WayBack] We kick off a week of MVVM with an introduction of the Model-View-ViewModel pattern and how data binding is used to realize it. – Erik van Bilsen – Google+:

I wrote (and gave a few conference talks) about DSharp before, so the above is very interesting.

–jeroen

References:

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

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