C++DelphiTech Partner

Scanning Optical Barcodes in your Delphi and C++ Builder VCL Applications

Intro Optical Barcode Recognition (OBR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has been utilized in many commercial applications. The fonts are electronically scanned and digitized into ASCI characters. Hand-held scanners also allow the user to have the ability to examine data, for instance, locating and reading the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) found on most published…
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C++DelphiTech Partner

Set of utilities for Delphi and C++Builder to speed up your development process

Intro When you start building any project, you might end up creating functions to use in several points of your application. Maybe you develop a set of code snippets. Utilities are an important point of connection between your software and the device it runs on, but what if you didn’t have to create them yourself? WinSoft offers a Utils library that gives you a bunch of functions to…
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C++CodeDelphi

Benchmarking Memory Managers BigBrain 2020 vs. FastMM5

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 comprehensive blog post by the creator of BigBrain 2020 which compares performance between BigBrain 2020 and FastMM5 (and TC…
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DelphiRAD StudioTech Partner

Super Fast JSON Processing In Delphi With Winsoft.sk JSON Library

JSONis a text-based data format following JavaScript object syntax, which was popularized byDouglas Crockford. Even though it closely resembles JavaScript object literal syntax, it can be used independently from JavaScript, and many programming environments feature the ability to read (parse) and generate JSON. JSON exists as a string, and is useful when you want to transmit data…
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