[fpc-devel] Re: Multi threading support

[Michael Schnell]

> OTOH, it's looks about the same as in Java and even Java now has explicit Locks, because "synchronized" simply isn't efficient 
I suppose if using Futex (in Linux) or an implementation of a user space 
Mutex in the RTL (using a bus locked read-modify write instruction and 
do a system call only when the resource is taken by another thread) 
needs close to no CPU time.

-Michael