New SHA-3 permutation kernel

A new kernel for SHA-3 (Keccak) cryptographic hashing has been committed to the DWScript repository.

It is almost 3 times faster than the Pascal version, makes use of MMX asm, and involved an “ad hoc compiler”.
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The BeginEnd.net & FastMM Canary!

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.

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Non-English Blogs now on BeginEnd.net

beginend176 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).

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BeginEnd.net has begun, where will it end?

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.

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Coalesce operator for DWScript

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.

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TBCEditor Syntax-Highlighting Editor

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.