ab synopse

Less is morML

In a world overloaded with JSON, YAML, TOML, and XML, there’s room for a new approach — a minimalist, human-readable configuration language that treats arrays and objects naturally, without punctuation noise. Enter morML — the mORMot-inspired Configuration Language.

⚠️ Disclaimer: morML is a conceptual format, not yet implemented anywhere. It’s an idea for a cleaner, smarter alternative for configuration files. It is not a general-purpose exchange format like JSON or YAML.

The Philosophy of morML

Updated example JSON configurations (extended/lowercase-kebab-case style)

1. Basic: main range + one exclusion pool

{
  name: "home-lan",
  subnet: "192.168.178.0/24",
  gateway: "192.168.178.1",

Sample DHCP Server settings, with specific PXE Boot options

Here is some typical settings in JSON format - but we could use .INI also if preferred:

{
  "FileName": "/opt/wapt/dhcpserver.leases",
  "FileFlushSeconds": 30,
  "MetricsFolder": "/var/log/wapt/dhcpserver",
  "MetricsCsvMinutes": 5,
  "Options": [],
  "Scope": [

Great — then I’ll go end-to-end, at the level that should be actionable for a mORMot2 maintainer, not hand-wavy.

I’ll structure this into the four requested parts, but you’ll see they naturally fit together.

1. Minimal DuckDB C API binding for mORMot2

	_ZN6Mormot4Core10Interfaces8FindGuidEPPNS1_17TInterfaceFactoryEiyy PROC
	; WEAK _ZN6Mormot4Core10Interfaces8FindGuidEPPNS1_17TInterfaceFactoryEiyy
	push rbp ; 0000 _ 55
	mov rbp, rsp ; 0001 _ 48: 89. E5
	mov qword ptr [rbp-20H], rcx ; 0004 _ 48: 89. 4D, E0
	mov qword ptr [rbp-18H], rdx ; 0008 _ 48: 89. 55, E8
	mov dword ptr [rbp-0CH], esi ; 000C _ 89. 75, F4
	mov qword ptr [rbp-8H], rdi ; 000F _ 48: 89. 7D, F8
	; Note: Immediate operand could be made smaller by sign extension
	cmp dword ptr [rbp-0CH], 0 ; 0013 _ 81. 7D, F4, 00000000

	program memtest;

	{
	PURPOSE: - compare FPC memory managers on heavily multi-thread allocation
	- compare JSON processing methods available on FPC
	- run on Linux with FPC stable using an Intel Core i5 13500 CPU

	WARNING: should have FPCMM_BOOSTER defined in mormot.core.fpcx64mm.pas

	-- TJSONData free in same thread

	program memtest;

	{$mode objfpc} {$longstrings on} {$typedaddress on} {$coperators on}
	//{$modeswitch anonymousfunctions} {$modeswitch implicitfunctionspecialization}
	{$warn 5024 off : Parameter not used}

	// WARNING/CAUTION: please set FPCMM_BOOSTER defined in mormot.core.fpcx64mm.pas

	uses
	//mormot.core.fpclibcmm,

	c:\Temp\tempbuild\exe>mormot2tests

	mORMot2 Regression Tests
	--------------------------


	1. Core units

	1.1. Core base:
	- Records: 2,110 assertions passed 449us

	C:\Users\administrator\x64>mormot2tests -t coreecc -t crypto.bench

	mORMot2 Regression Tests
	--------------------------


	1. Core units

	1.4. Core crypto:
	- Benchmark: 152,535 assertions passed 2.15s

	C:\test>mormot2tests -t coreecc -t crypto.bench

	mORMot2 Regression Tests
	--------------------------


	1. Core units

	1.4. Core crypto:
	- Benchmark: 152,535 assertions passed 4.02s