TDM Rerun #13: Shared Events, Part 2: Redesign

Now we can already guess where the general sluggishness of the shared event system comes from. The trouble lies in the constant XML loading and saving. Most of the shared event system tables are quite static, but that doesn’t hold for the Event Queue table, where new entries are inserted, modified and deleted all the time.

- Shared Events, Part 2: Redesign, The Delphi Magazine 102, February 2004

My second article on shared events architecture first addressed speed issues (original code was quite slow), then discussed internals of shared counters, shared linked lists and shared tables (all of which are used in the shared events system) and at the end returned to fine-tuning by fixing some remaining speed issues. As you can expect, the basis for the tuning was hard data from the profiler, not some wave-of-hand ideas about where the problem maybe lies.

Links: article (PDF, 99 KB), source code (ZIP, 1,9 MB), current version.