Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for Delphi ? It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL 

http://blog.synopse.info/post/2009/12/20/Enhanced-Run-Time-library-for-Delphi-7

It's very interesting and I'd like to know it's stability.

Edwin Ye wrote:

> Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for Delphi
> ? It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL

This library violates Delphi's license (redistributing of RTL/VCL
source files is not allowed).
The last post was deleted and I'm sure this one will be deleted, too.


-- 
Andreas Hausladen

Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:46:03 -0800 schrieb Edwin Ye:

> Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for Delphi ? It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL 
> 
> http://blog.synopse.info/post/2009/12/20/Enhanced-Run-Time-library-for-Delphi-7
> 
> It's very interesting and I'd like to know it's stability.

Really interesting, thanks for the link.

bye,
Harry

Andreas Hausladen wrote:

> Edwin Ye wrote:
> 
> > Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for
> > Delphi ? It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL
> 
> This library violates Delphi's license (redistributing of RTL/VCL
> source files is not allowed).
> The last post was deleted and I'm sure this one will be deleted, too.


Would it also be a license violation if he/she distributed the changes
in a form of diff file with the installer applying the changes to the
original source files automatically?


Just curios...

> {quote:title=Edwin Ye wrote:}{quote}
> Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for Delphi ? It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL

> Would it also be a license violation if he/she distributed the changes
> in a form of diff file with the installer applying the changes to the
> original source files automatically?

 I modified the installation package of our code. According to Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero copyright, the original source files are now needed: this new installation package only contains the diffs made to the original Delphi 7 files. Its size was reduced to 164KB, patcher and diffs included (thanks to our LVCL which is a Open Source VCL replacement for building small Delphi apps). To get the updated source files, you will need: 1) a running Delphi 7 IDE in the background; 2) the original source files di
rectory.

See http://blog.synopse.info/post/2010/01/05/New-Enhanced-System-Run-Time-Distribution

.....and just to be clear:  It is perfectly fine to distribute diffs to
our files, or some scheme that will alter the existing files on a users
machine.

It's not okay to distribute our code, nor modified versions of our code.

Thanks, Arnaud, for a great contribution to the community.


-- 
Nick Hodges
Delphi Development Manager
Embarcadero Technologies

<Ken White> wrote in message news:199943@forums.codegear.com...
>> {quote:title=Edwin Ye wrote:}{quote}
>> Anybody noticed, even tried this Enhanced Run Time library for Delphi ? 
>> It's a hack of the D7 RTL/VCL
I am confused. Please explain.

Mike

> {quote:title=Mike Brindley wrote:}{quote}
> I am confused. Please explain.

I took the original source code of the VCL, and modified it for speed and some bug fixes (for the VCL). With Delphi, as the whole source code of the VCL framework is supplied, you can do such modifications, compile them, and use it in your programs.

The main modifications are in the system.pas and in the SysUtils.pas unit. Lot of asm was introduced or rewritten, in order to speed up the most used part of the VCL. For example, when an object or record is created, memory is to be allocated and fields are to be initialized: my modifications speed up these common tasks (by using optimized assembler or other algorithms). For normal use and most GUI programs, it's not noticeable. But for very intensive applications, you can see some speed improvements.

Embarcadero did this internally, and used third-party modifications of the RTL into the main trunk of official Delphi release. For example, some optimized code was introduced since Delphi 2006 for the memory manager (FastMM4), move() or fillchar(). All these improvements are included in these files for Delphi 7, and much more.

See the web site to discover the modifications.

Yes I fully understand what you have done and appreciate the work that you 
have put in. I have downloaded the mod file and will take a look when I get 
the time.

What I don't understand is why Ken White has replied to this thread asking 
for the link to be deleted. Especially since Nick Hodges HAD already voiced 
his approval.

And he changed the title of the thread, contrary to good etiquette rules.

regards
Mike
<Arnaud BOUCHEZ> wrote in message news:200505@forums.codegear.com...
>> {quote:title=Mike Brindley wrote:}{quote}
>> I am confused. Please explain.
>
> I took the original source code of the VCL, and modified it for speed and 
> some bug fixes (for the VCL). With Delphi, as the whole source code of the 
> VCL framework is supplied, you can do such modifications, compile them, 
> and use it in your programs.
>
> The main modifications are in the system.pas and in the SysUtils.pas unit. 
> Lot of asm was introduced or rewritten, in order to speed up the most used 
> part of the VCL. For example, when an object or record is created, memory 
> is to be allocated and fields are to be initialized: my modifications 
> speed up these common tasks (by using optimized assembler or other 
> algorithms). For normal use and most GUI programs, it's not noticeable. 
> But for very intensive applications, you can see some speed improvements.
>
> Embarcadero did this internally, and used third-party modifications of the 
> RTL into the main trunk of official Delphi release. For example, some 
> optimized code was introduced since Delphi 2006 for the memory manager 
> (FastMM4), move() or fillchar(). All these improvements are included in 
> these files for Delphi 7, and much more.
>
> See the web site to discover the modifications.

Mike Brindley wrote:

> What I don't understand is why Ken White has replied to this thread
> asking for the link to be deleted. Especially since Nick Hodges HAD
> already voiced his approval.

Are you sure that Nick "had already" voiced his approval when Ken
posted his message?


-- 
Andreas Hausladen

"Andreas Hausladen" <AndreasDOTHausladen@gObviousToBeRemovedmx.de> wrote in 
message news:200558@forums.codegear.com...
>
>
> Are you sure that Nick "had already" voiced his approval when Ken
> posted his message?
>
Yes.

Mike Brindley wrote:

> > Are you sure that Nick "had already" voiced his approval when Ken
> > posted his message?
> > 
> Yes.


Nick:
2010-01-06  17:42

Ken:
2010-01-05  22:11

So Nick posted one day after Ken had posted his message.


-- 
Andreas Hausladen

Mike Brindley wrote:

> What I don't understand is why Ken White has replied to this thread
> asking for the link to be deleted. Especially since Nick Hodges HAD
> already voiced his approval.

You apparently don't know all details, probably because some of the
original messages were cancelled by TeamB.

Nick voiced his approval for diff files (which were my suggestion,
early on in the thread).

I'm sure he would not have approved of the orginal files on the
website, which contained modified copies of the Delphi 7 sources, which
is not allowed. Ken asked for the removal of the message linking to
these modified copies of the original Delphi 7 source files. The
message was removed (cancelled, as we call it).

-- 
Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)        http://www.teamb.com

"In all the disputes, which have excited Christians against
 each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that
 opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human
 intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers."
 -- Voltaire

Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:

> 
> which were my suggestion early on in the thread

Really?

Zenon Jordan wrote :
> Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:
>
>> 
>> which were my suggestion early on in the thread
>
> Really?

news:197178@forums.codegear.com    or
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=195778&tstart=0#195778

ic

Thanks

Zenon Jordan wrote:

> Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > which were my suggestion early on in the thread
> 
> Really?

Yes, when it was still in the other group.

-- 
Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)        http://www.teamb.com

"Java: the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of
 Smalltalk." -- Roland Turner

I don't find diff files in the last distribution.
When I run it I have "System.pas: CRC Error 2 (extract source)"

> I don't find diff files in the last distribution.
> When I run it I have "System.pas: CRC Error 2 (extract source)"

I had the same error show up and it was because the source files on
my system were not the originals from the 2002 release. My source
files had been updated during one of the Borland updates. When I dug
out the originals from the install CD I was then able to apply the
new updates

> {quote:title=Serge Voloshenyuk wrote:}{quote}
> When I run it I have "System.pas: CRC Error 2 (extract source)"

It did appear that some diverse VCL source code files were provided by Borland, with the same official version "Delphi 7". So I made some diverse patchers, in order that everyone could get our enhancements.

The patchers can be freely downloaded from here:
http://blog.synopse.info/post/2010/01/14/Updated-Enhanced-System-Run-Time-patches

Email me if you have any problems about getting your VCL patched.
Note that its 100% safe, since the files are patched and written in a another directory (not in-place, of course).

I managed to get our enhanced RTL work with Delphi 2007. Only System.pas and SysInit.pas are supplied (and needed) for Delphi 2007. Even if some John O'Harrow or Pierre Le Riche modifications were already included in Delphi 2007, some of my tricks and low level asm rewritte are unique and could be useful even on this compiler.

These updated System.pas and SysInit.pas files should work with every version of the Delphi compiler, from 3 to 2007 (not Delphi 2009/2010, since the Unicode changed a lot the way these files did exist). I've only checked Delphi 7 and Delphi 2007. So if you were able to use them with other Delphi compiler versions, send me some feed back, please!

See http://blog.synopse.info/post/2010/01/18/Enhanced-System-Run-Time-for-Delphi-7-and-Delphi-2007