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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide
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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

by Primož Gabrijelčič
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
674 pages
15h
English
Packt Publishing
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FastMM internals

To get a full speed out of anything, you have to understand how it works and memory managers are no exception to this rule. To write very fast Delphi applications, you should therefore understand how Delphi's default memory manager works.

FastMM is not just a memory manager—it is three memory managers in one! It contains three significantly different subsystems—small block allocator, medium block allocator, and large block allocator.

The first one, the allocator for small blocks, handles all memory blocks smaller than 2,5 KB. This boundary was determined by observing existing applications. As it turned out, in most Delphi applications, this covers 99% of all memory allocations. This is not surprising, as in most Delphi applications ...

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