[fpc-devel] Xe3 Parallel for

[Sven Barth]

Am 12.05.2015 13:45 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>>>
>>>         TParallel.For(2,1,Max,procedure(I:Int64)
>>
>> This is a class method parameterised with D2009 anonymouse method, not a
>> language construct.
>>
>> If you read the release manifest well, they talk about a parallel
library,
>> not paralel language extensions.
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>
> I did not claim that it's a brand new language construct (or anything
else), I just said "feature".
>
> If the code snippet I mentioned is compilable even with D2009, only the
library is new.
>
> Nonetheless to me it seems rather silly that they offer a dedicated
language construct  ("parallel for" / "future") with Prism and suggest
using another language construct (anonymous method) for exactly the same
purpose with Xe8.

They don't /own/ Prism. They merely license it, so what the Oxygene
developers do and what the Delphi developers do are two different things.

>
> Regarding fpc, I am aware that "anonymous method" had been discussed
here. I did not take a deeper look into same.
>
> Is / will the syntax be the same as with Delphi ?

At least in mode Delphi, yes.

>
> Will the fpc library provide the appropriate classes for doing
"TParallel.For" as described ?

If I remember correctly we already have something similar somewhere among
our supplied units for quite some time.

In the end I suppose that support for that TParallel class will be based on
"patches welcome" once anonymous functions are supported.

Regards,
Sven
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