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Few notes. First, when using free AI variants, your code will end up in the AI training data. And I wouldn't trust paid versions either. You need to be very careful that you don't give AI access to sensitive code that contains data which should not end up there. It is also very easy to do that by accident and it is prudent to run AI interactions in restricted environment like VM where you will have only non sensitive code. Next, anything that AI gives out needs to be carefully reviewed by human. AI often hallucinates and sometimes those hallucinations are not as obvious. This is especially important for code which requires some detailed explanations about how it works and why or some reasoning only person who wrote the code can answer (or the reasons are written in some other documents like specifications or design). Similar goes to writing tests with AI help. One of the huge problems with AI usage, is that with time, reviewing its output becomes a mundane task and this is where mistakes can more easily creep in.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share some practical benchmark results from testing Delphi 12.3 under Parallels Desktop (Windows 11 ARM) on my new Mac Studio M4 Max. I'm working on a large ERP project (around 1 million lines of code) using components from Fast Report, TMS Software, and DevExpress. Here’s a direct comparison between three systems I’ve tested: Build config Intel i5-12500 (Win11, 32 GB) Mac Mini M4 Pro (24 GB) Mac Studio M4 Max (36 GB) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Win64 Clean + Build 32 sec 26 sec 24 sec Win64 Clean + Compile 21 sec 18 sec 17 sec Win32 Clean + Build 23 sec 19 sec 17 sec Win32 Clean + Compile 16 sec 14 sec 13 sec All tests were run in Parallels Desktop 19, with each Mac VM configured optimally (RAM and CPU cores adjusted per machine). The Intel system was running native Windows 11 Pro with 32 GB RAM. Windows 11 ARM inside Parallels ran Delphi 12.3 without any issues. Key impressions: Mac Studio M4 Max delivers excellent performance even under virtualization. Parallels Desktop is extremely stable — no issues with Firebird or IBExpert either. For large Delphi projects, it’s a very viable setup for professional development. Best regards, Bojan

Continuing with the "funny" compiler "errors": 1. Optional semicolon (for global and nested proc declarations only!!!) if you have any of these specifiers (platform, deprecated, assembler, register, stdcall... etc): But semicolon is required if this is a const/var/type/method 2. Crazy mixing of these specifiers (you can mix all these specifiers as you want): 3. Crazy mixing of "platform" specifier for global variable declaration: I suppose there are much more similar "bugs", I see it on 11.3 and 12.3, and believe emba will never fix it, their favorite answer - don't do like this! 😄

It's funny to see various people posting their own solutions when the original post contains a comprehensive implementation....