David Heffernan

That looks like base64 encoded binary data. No evidence that it is encrypted. You must know more about where this text came from. That information is probably useful.

Isn't the top of the stack protected by guard pages?

The 32 bit behaviour is preferable. Why do you want to do anything after a stack overflow?

We don't know what your code does, and how it interacts with its host. Nobody can answer your question with the amount of information provided here.

Are these all windowed controls? Seems like something like this might be better as a single custom control. I'd expect that to have much better performance.

Perhaps you haven't got a valid serial number.

Compile the code into a dll and link that. Directly linking obj files is possible but it can be tricky. Especially for 64 bit code where the compiler doesn't respect exception table meta data.

The point about return value vs out param is that the former can be composed directly in chained function calls.

I'm guessing what happened here is that asker put the variable name into a string and imagined it would be interpreted in the context of the variable namespace.

Why not compile the code as is, and link it from your program?

This is not true. You can use an inline variable declaration. https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Inline_Variable_Declaration Please don't tell us we are jerks. That's just offensive and rude.

I had to read this question x times before I understood it

Not with Electron. I'm thinking of programs built with other tools. Or do you claim that programs exist that perform their task efficiently? I don't disagree. I'm talking about the other use cases. Have you seen how much labour Arnaud puts in to writing asm code? Because the Delphi compilers can't do the job. Other tools can do the job though. I don't think that's a fair assessment. The programs you are talking about call into libraries like numpy and scipy and the kernels of these libraries are implemented in Fortran and C. I wish people would stop telling me that performance doesn't matter to me. How do you all know what matters to me?

Let's look at this argument. There also exist many dev tools and programs built with them, that are blazingly fast. By your logic we would conclude that market does care about speed. But now we've got contradictory conclusions using your logic. There must be a flaw somewhere. Is it possible that performance is critical in some cases, but not others? If go right back to the start of this particular thread, my original comment was in response to a claim that code compiled by delphi was fast. I disagreed with that. Seems like you actually agree with me.

Sorry, I don't know what point you are making. Can you elaborate?

Why not? My experience is that the OS is largely unimportant because it's the hardware that matters. Well no, but that's not even remotely what I'm talking about. My competitors aren't coding for 90s Crays. They are coding for today's hardware, as am I. For of all, we haven't been getting annual doubling of performance for quite a while now. But again I'm not competing against last year's computers. The developers writing code that competes against mine are also able to use that same hardware as me. Just because performance isn't important to you doesn't mean that it isn't important to others. Your experience of the world isn't the same as others.

That's nice. But plenty of other people are in the situation which you are lucky enough never to have found yourself in.

If only delphi's poor performance was limited to math

Yeah, but performance isn't important for 98% of Delphi programmers. (am I doing this right?)

This makes absolutely no sense.

That's absolutely fair. But I was responding this this comment. If performance isn't important to you then you can just ignore such discussions. Just as I ignore discussions on things like database programming in Delphi, because I don't don't use Delphi for that.

My business is based around a computationally intensive numerical finite element code. The performance of the code emitted by the compiler is very important. Why do you think otherwise?

I'm happy for you that delphi is fast enough for you. It does produce slow code when compared to other mainstream modern compilers. C++ is a language with many compilers. Some compilers are faster than others. So it doesn't make sense to compare delphi compilers to C++ as a whole. It's certainly the case that the fastest C++ compilers produce code that is much faster than delphi. Especially for maths. In fact for maths code it's astonishing how slow delphi is.

Might be cast to develop, but the code produced by the Delphi compilers is slow

What is the problem for which this is the solution?