DelphiTools, SamplingProfiler and General Delphi News
I have been using the feeds aggregator BeginEnd.net as more than just a news aggregator, it is also a Canary: once a new version of DWScript passes tests, it goes live there!
Latest Canary feature is for the new FastMM4 multi-threading improvements by Primož Gabrijelčič, which can be found under the Locking Improvements branch.
Non-English Blogs have been added to BeginEnd.net, not many just yet: three in Italian, one French and one Korean!
The BeginEnd.net website itself stays in English, and the posts titles & descriptions are going to be automatically-translated in English (currently through Microsoft Translator service).
Last week www.beginend.net was launched with the goal of aggregating Pascal and Delphi blogs in a mobile-friendly, secure website with a minimalist UI.
The website is Pascal-Powered: the server is Delphi-compiled DWScript Sample Web server, the server-side page generation and APIs are handled by DWS and an SQLite database, and the client-side is a SmartPascal application compiled on-the-fly to JavaScript by the server.
Support for ?? (double question mark) as the coalesce operator has been added to DWScript.
The coalesce operator is a binary operator, which looks at its left operand, and if not “falsey”, returns it, otherwise returns its right operand.
A new syntax-highlighting editor has been unleashed upon the Delphi world by Lasse Rautiainen, it’s named TBCEditor, and it is quite full-featured, clean, stable and fast.
The main source code is TBCEditor on github and supports Delphi XE4-XE8, I have made a fork TBCEditorXE on bitbucket which supports XE.
A new version 2014.10.15 of the DWS Web Server 
is available.
This version contains a variety of improvements and fixes, along with a new sample for JS libraries.
The pre-compiled 2014.10.13 version of the DWScript WebServer is now available!
This version includes the Pascal to JavaScript CodeGen!
Below is a quick summary of changes in the SVN since the last post.
There is also a mini-sneak peek of things to come!
Long time, no post here, but not no happenings on the DWScript front 🙂
Behold a “cleaned up old logo” for DWScript, which will replace the old one until a better one is made
In a Google+ comment to my recent article about inlining in XE6, Leif Uneus posted results from Scimark.
It appears that XE6 is about 30% slower than previous versions at least from XE5 to XE for 32bits floating point.
Note that Scimark does not make use of inlining, but does make heavy use of floating-point computations, loops and arrays.
Edit: issue discussed here was reported in QC 124652 (now marked as resolved)
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