Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

Summary

In this chapter, I touched on two very different topics. First, I looked at responsive user interfaces and how to make them faster and then I continued with the concept of caching. That topic was introduced with a simple example, followed by a fully-featured cache implementation that you can use in your programs.

In the end, I returned to the example SlowCode program from Chapter 1, About Performance. First, I used some detective work to find out what it really does, which allowed me to improve it a lot. The code now processes a million numbers in mere milliseconds and not minutes as the original program did.

In the next chapter, I'll focus on optimizing the code on a smaller level. We will look at various Delphi language and RTL ...