Just a quick post to announce the DWScript Compendium website!
This is the long overdue language documentation website for DWScript, which Gemini-cli has been patiently building over the last weeks, as it’s wasn’t built as a one-off documentation generation, but as a fully proved and compiled documentation. So hallucinations should be minimal!
At a time when AI are taking over writing code, AI also took over writing documentation.
Recently added a small DWScript-MCP repository with MCP (Model Context Protocol) samples for DWScript.
This showcases how you can deploy a custom MCP server with basically nothing else than the DWSWebServer.exe. That’s less than 8 MB, a couple small script files and no dependencies… and it can even run under Linux with Wine!
Just before Christmas, the FMXutils DX11 driver received two additions: texture binding support in vertex shaders and GPU device selection.
Vertex shader texture binding enables advanced techniques including displacement mapping and GPU-side heightmaps, which were previously not possible with FMX.
A new version 24.11.26 of SamplingProfiler is available.
The only significant change in this version is the support for sampling code that is in “.inc” files in addition to regular “.pas” unit files. The file name is now actually tracked from the map file, while previously it was obtained by appending “.pas” to the unit name, so there may also be other files extensions that are supported now.
A couple weeks I added to FMXutils repository a conversion of the “Compute Boids” flocking demo.
This builds upon the WebGPU driver for FireMonkey, but uses a dedicated class where the Compute & rendering shaders are hosted.
Two ping-pong buffers are used to store and updated particle data, which are used to mimic the flocking behavior of birds.
There are many patterns, principles, and development methodologies out there that are evangelized.
They can have fancy names, some are old, some are new. But they all boil down to just three “Unities”, which have nothing in particular to do with computing or development, and all to do with those that are doing development and design: humans.
You find those three Unities in practically all crafts.
The FMXUtils repository now implements support for GPU Buffers for Delphi FMX (with DX11 or WebGPU).
Adding GPU buffers required some trickery and hackery, but the speedups can be massive: 2x to 3x speedups on low-end integrated GPUs, with reports of 20x (twenty times) speedups on discrete GPUs!
I tried to make the support as easy and backward compatible as possible, while dancing around missing private fields and non-virtual methods. (more…)
Just a quick post to announce the Delphi-WebGPU repository.
What ?
Why ?
To take the words from webgpu-headers:
While WebGPU is a JavaScript API made for the Web, it is a good tradeoff of ergonomic, efficient and portable graphics API. (more…)
In the previous article on 3D point cloud for FMX, systematic memory copy when drawing primitives came out as #1 bottleneck in FMX performance when rendering millions of points.
But was it just a false positive ?
I hacked FMXU.Context.DX11 to eliminate the memory copies… in the most hacky way, don’t ask for code it’s not re-useable 🙂 (more…)