Hi Paule, I use Delphi for simulating motor vehicle assembly line operations. This is not computationally intensive and performance is no problem. Compared to Fortran the developpment time is much quicker.
I also have a small but computationally very intensive optimization that was originally in Fortran. One issue here is Delphi's memory management. It is slow to dynamically allocate and free memory, so I calculate what I'll need up front. I have heard about 3rd party improved memory managers but haven't tried them. They would be more important to me if I could not allocate my memory up front. Glen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paule Ecimovic Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2005 12:39 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Delphi as a Performance optimum between Fortran and Java forInteractive Numerical Analysis Hi all, Can someone give me some pointers on the feasibility of using Delphi for development and testing of numerically-intensive codes, e.g., simulations of dynamical systems with large numbers of components such as occur in some image processing applications driven by partial differential equation systems or cellular automata. I would like to be able to implement numerical integration routines and test them on a standard problem set for various sets of parameters and input data. I would then like to represent the results, typically image transformations, graphically. I can paint and test GUI's rapidly in Delphi, although connecting them to numerical code is sometimes tricky. Is there some way of making three "plug boards": a GUI layer and a test problem layer and a numerical routines layer such that they can be interconnected much like a telephone exchange routining calls where they need to go given the number that was dialed? In a way this question harkens back to Robert's response to the business logic vs gui layer question. Can anyone elaborate that in this case? Any thoughts on this matter would be very useful. Cheers, Paule _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
