[fpc-devel] Xe3 Parallel for

[Michael Schnell]

On 05/12/2015 05:39 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Why should that interfere in any kind?! Behind the scenes it's 
> propably using TThread anyway...
>
Because Foreground code (here the calls made by the "visible" code the 
user creates to use "TParallel") and the "background code" in the 
threads that TParallel might create,  communicate (i.e. the Thread 
notifying the foreground code about a state such as "ready") via the 
Event-Queue and for this the foreground code need to call 
CheckSynchronize().

But CheckSynchronize() needs to be "manually" done by the user in a pure 
FPC project. Only with projects using the LCL (or mse-gui or whatever 
framework), this is done  without the user explicitly creating code for 
this.

How else should "SW.Stop;" in the example work ?

OK, "TStopWatch.Stop;" might call CheckSynchronize() in a loop with a 
timeout definable as a property of TStopWatch. This hopefully will not 
interfere with other CheckSynchronize() calls done e.g. by the LCL.

-Michael