Grippy
03-09-2009, 03:28 PM
I and my friends all like to add the DelphiSpeedUp extension (http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/?page_id=8) to our Delphi environments. It provides a nice speed boost for the IDE, along with a couple of other small features.
See also the FastCode (http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/) link on the DelphiSpeedUp page. These are hand-optimized core routines that run many times faster than what come in the RTL/VCL. Simply including FastCode can cool performance hotspots in your applications.
Also along these lines, check out the FastMM project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm) which provides a vastly improved memory manager for Delphi 7. It's so good CodeGear made it a part of later Delphi versions. Makes your program faster and may reduce memory requirements (depending on what you are doing). Also very useful for reporting memory leaks so you can find and fix them.
To make working in the Delphi IDE nicer, install the GExperts extension (http://www.gexperts.org/). This provides a nice set of programmer-friendly tools that you can use for quick reference. Lots of stuff, ranging from a simple ASCII chart to grep tools, procedure lists and code templates.
See also the FastCode (http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/) link on the DelphiSpeedUp page. These are hand-optimized core routines that run many times faster than what come in the RTL/VCL. Simply including FastCode can cool performance hotspots in your applications.
Also along these lines, check out the FastMM project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm) which provides a vastly improved memory manager for Delphi 7. It's so good CodeGear made it a part of later Delphi versions. Makes your program faster and may reduce memory requirements (depending on what you are doing). Also very useful for reporting memory leaks so you can find and fix them.
To make working in the Delphi IDE nicer, install the GExperts extension (http://www.gexperts.org/). This provides a nice set of programmer-friendly tools that you can use for quick reference. Lots of stuff, ranging from a simple ASCII chart to grep tools, procedure lists and code templates.