Numerous optimisations and performance improvements, courtesy of DelphiSpeedUp from Andreas Hausladen.Significantly improved highly performant runtime library functions (contributed by the FastCode project).An all new, highly efficient memory manager, contributed by Pierre La Riche (among others).Here are just some of the features it contains: I present for your consideration a new version of Delphi built by The Community for The community. I was going to talk about a “Delphi: Community Edition”. 🙂 The Community EditionĪnyway, I digress. I suffer under no illusions on that score, but still. Maybe I’m just not considered that significant a voice. I know that Embarcadero staffers visit my site from time to time. Either they have not been told that the decision is not yet confirmed… or they have ignored a request to remove it or issue a correction (or perhaps they have but can’t be bothered or haven’t got around to it yet).īut I’m also somewhat confused… I would have thought that Embarcadero would have been in touch with me to let me know that my blog post was based on incorrect or at least slightly inaccurate information. But….Īs of this moment, that Finnish reseller has not removed that notice from their web site. On the face of it this should be encouraging. And what might be done about that.Īfter a flurry of emails and a healthy exchange of views on the NZ Delphi User Group mail list about the new upgrade policy heading our way in January 2010, Malcolm Groves of Embarcadero Australia (or Asia/Pacific – I forget precisely, but suffice to say he’s a relatively “big cheese” in antipodean Embarcadero terms) has explained that this is only a potential change in upgrade policy that Embarcadero are considering, which is why there has been no formal announcement as yet. Why even an upgrade costs as much as a half decent new PC (excluding monitor). And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.Īnd why the cheapest version of Delphi costs a new user as much as a pretty reasonable second-hand car. The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things.

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