[fpc-devel] Threads and alot of crap

Marc Weustink marc.weustink at cuperus.nl
Tue Oct 17 10:56:32 CEST 2006


Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Marc Weustink wrote:
>> This was exactly the reason why I choose to use pthreads directly. For 
>> the given situation one single semaphore call could replace this.
> 
> Well, events <> semaphores :-). 

thats why I wrote: for the given situation ;)
It was for the cheap-concurrency benchmark. Later it turned out that a 
semaphore was more suitable that I was used to with (windows) events.

> We need semaphore abstraction as well 
> for "proper" RTL, besides events.

Eh, yes, that would be nice.

Marc




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