Monthly Archives: March 2009

SmartInspect 3.2: new build available

By Tobias Gurock | Published: March 25, 2009
I’ve just uploaded a new build of SmartInspect 3.2. The new build contains an important fix for a problem where the SmartInspect Console may become unresponsive/locked for a few seconds (while loading a log file or scrolling a view, for example). The exact version number of the new build is 3.2.0.8546. If you’ve already downloaded [...]
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Delphi 2009 and backwards compatibility

By Tobias Gurock | Published: March 23, 2009
In a recent blog post I saw on DelphiFeeds.com, Babnik argues that Delphi 2009 should have been compatible with older Delphi versions by still treating String as an AnsiString and introducing a parallel VCL with UnicodeStrings (think TEdit vs. TEditW). I don’t think this would have been a good idea. I understand that there are many [...]
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SmartInspect 3.2 is available

By Tobias Gurock | Published: March 23, 2009
We are happy to announce the release of SmartInspect 3.2. Besides adding some often requested features to the Console and logging libraries, we made some major changes to the SmartInspect Console in how it loads and processes log files, reducing the memory usage during log file loading drastically and making it faster in general. We’ve also [...]
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Optimizing Memory Consumption with String Pools

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 5, 2009
For those of you who haven’t yet subscribed to our new software quality blog, here are links to an interesting post series Tobias has recently written and published on No bug left behind. Tobias explains how to reduce memory usage by making use of string pools and shows how we integrated this technique into the [...]
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