Delphi High Performance: Build fast Delphi applications using concurrency, parallel programming and memory management

I have been using Delphi since 1995 and pride myself as knowing a lot of what goes on "under the hood". But this book was a sobering serving of humble pie. Great narrative, excellent and concise examples, and lots of real-life testing data to back-up the assertions of the text. This book will join the barely dated "Delphi XE2 Foundations" (Rollinson) as a permanent fixture on my desk (where, believe me, space is at a premium).

I am completely in AWE of Primoz new book "Delphi High Performance". After reading only 4 chapters i have already produced two tickets for two different 3rd party vendors and the bugs are already fixed. Most literature in lieu leaves me with a "well, i knew that". But this book is really an eye-opener to me.You get walked-through all those things that are a bit murky. Important and interesting details regarding the subject matter explained with humour, exactness and detail. Also - and i appreciate this a lot - the authors personal views on some particular details is accounted for. This is not a beginners book, put it in the hands of someone without hands-on experience and they will probably go do a LOT of premature optimization.

I purchased this book in order to improve our company library to aid in continuous training of our devs. Being already familiar with some of the authors work, I was slightly surprised at how little of the the book was spent on multi-threading. Don't get me wrong, he actually covers it really just the right amount, introducing all of the pitfalls alongside the gains to help those less familiar better decide on direction without becoming experts first.I'm recommending the book to all of our software devs and will likely make it required reading for those new to Delphi.

Primož is the ideal author to write this book, and he assembled the kind of resource we all need to read.I appreciate that it talks both about responsiveness and computation performance. It is also refreshing to see a book that is written with attention paid to the latest technology, while also being applicable to earlier versions of Delphi.I've been programming Delphi since the beginning, and Turbo Pascal before that, and just flipping through this book I learned useful information.

A new Delphi book is a rare thing these days, and this is a good one. I'm always tweaking my code to optimise performance, so this was right up my alley.While it covers a lot of things I already knew, there was also plenty I didn't know (and I've been using delphi since v1) or had forgotten. The book goes into just the right amount of detail, with excellent examples.Should be required reading for all Delphi developers!

Thanks to Packt for bringing out some fantastic Delphi books, they have tapped into some great authors. Its great that we have seen some great books on Delphi over the past 3-5 years.

Very well written. It contains a lot of useful info and it cannot be clearer than this; you can understand everything thanks to the skills of the author! He is able to explain quite complex topics with an easy wording and well-chosen examples

Essential reading material for any Delphi developer.

MRP is Rs.1,099 (Rupees One thousand and Ninety Nine). It is not Rs.3,991 (Rupees Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety One) as shown in the details.Nice book.