[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:

> Something like this to do a matrix multiplication

At the moment the only point I am making is this. Assuming a thread pool 
which can be applied to a parallel activity, it might be desirable to 
only use that from a single app-level thread. Hence (using your syntax 
only for consistency):

   serial for i := 0 to m-1 do begin
>   parallel for j = 0 to n-1 do begin
..
>   end;
> end;

to ensure that the inner loop is parallelised to the greatest possible 
extent, but that the outer loop is protected from reentry.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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