David Heffernan

Floating point exceptions got masked by the library you used. We've covered this hundreds of times here and elsewhere. Some websearch will reveal more.

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here. In order to help you we'd need to see some concrete examples.

Even so, you'd still be spending time in the heap allocator which would be undesirable.

Yes. The package in this library is a runtime package for use if you are using runtime packages rather than a monolithic executable. Just include the source code for the library and compile it. There is a sample program that does this.

Why do you need design time packages for a cryptography library?

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What AI could do is the websearch that so many askers on SO don't do, and thus avoid there being so many duplicate questions posted. That would be a plus.

I think the answer to the original question is no

So scale them higher than recommended which is exactly what I do, 14/10*150=210. Problem solved. I wish there was an option to vote against QP issues.

Doesn't this depend on what scaling you use in the monitor, in other words what dpi you use. I mean, one point is 1/72 inch. But it will be much smaller if you say your 4k monitor has 96dpi. Rather than sizing your fonts differently, shouldn't you just set the dpi appropriately? I use an editor font size of 9 or 10 but a font scaling of 175% or 200%.

You should read about the Python GIL which is liable to be an issue

I'd live to see it answer some of the questions that have been answered on SO, but without being able to refer to SO. In short, no, AI is still a long way from making human though obsolete. It can be a really power tool to use alongside it.

Personally I think it's much clearer like this: procedure MyProcedure(a, b: Boolean); begin if a then begin if b then Beep else Beep end else begin if b // Kommentar then Beep else Beep; end; end;

I support the current release of my software which is current for a year. When the new version comes out, we stop updating and supporting the previous version. I think that's pretty common. It is frustrating if you are on an older version, but my clients don't mind because they are happy to upgrade. Delphi is somewhat bug riddled and updating can be fraught. The Embarcadero policy would be better if the software wasn't so buggy and new versions weren't so risky.

I'd terminate the process

For a DLL that can be used by hosts outside your control, it's wrong to force the caller to be in console mode. You are hosted by another process which makes its own decisions.

What are you talking about? How about some plain speaking rather than writing cryptic messages.

In the face of malware, curiosity needs be tempered somewhat.

Astounding that people here apparently followed these links

These are open source projects

I mean, aren't we all people who write code? I find it odd to hear programmers that don't want to program because they aren't able to do it right.

Would be quicker just to write them yourself

I'm not even sure what you are asking us for here. What would a positive outcome to this thread look like?

Nobody expects the Delphi compiler to optimise anything

It depends. If I'm going to initialise every field I wouldn't default initialise. Many of my records have class methods named New that don't default initialise and assign to each field. I wouldn't want to offer blanket advice. Default initialise if you need to default initialise.