C++ Builder provides three levels of development:1. Components (VCL and FMX)2. Common Libraries (RTL).3. Platform APIs (iOS, Android, Mac OS)In this post we will discuss the Common Libraries (RTL).C++ Builder has several hundred functions, macros, and classes that you call from within your C and C++ programs to perform a wide variety of tasks, including low- and high-level I/O, string and file…
Benchmarking Memory Managers BigBrain 2020 vs. FastMM5
August 28, 2020
Looking to upgrade the memory manager in Embarcadero Dev C++ I investigated a number of memory manages including FastMM4-AVX. The second memory manager I looked at is called BigBrain 2020 and it looks to have significant performance improvements in some areas. There is a…
Don’t Underestimate Desktop Applications
August 28, 2020
Desktop applications have been undervalued for a long time. All attention was reserved for web and mobile. While both Microsoft and Apple made strides to evolve the desktop, there has been far less energy and economic momentum behind that platform. Today the maturity of web…
by Jonathan Benedicto of JomiTech, the makers of TwineCompile
TwineCompile is our solution to slow C++ compile times. Integrating directly into the C++Builder IDE, it dramatically reduces the compile/make/build times by employing techniques such as multithreading, file caching, and automatic background compiling. In some cases, the projects compile 50x faster with…