[fpc-pascal] Re: Multi-threaded project with few locks (no Thread.waitfor). Memory consumption keeps increasing on Ubuntu 10.10 x64

[Sven Barth]

Am 14.10.2010 09:35, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> The problem with an own version of pthreads is that those threads will
>> be limited to Pascal code only, cause other (C based) libraries will
>> still use pthreads.
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> This is not a problem for pascal-only libs.
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As long as you don't need to use non-pascal libraries, you are correct. 
But according to the Wine article it is already a problem if you use 
libc, because it only enables its thread safety routines if pthreads is 
detected... :(

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>> An interesting lecture on this topic is in the wiki of Wine, cause
>> they had to implement their own threading implementation as well (the
>> old pthreads library wasn't capable enough for the needs of the
>> WinAPI). eYou can find the article here:
>> http://www.winehq.org/docs/winedev-guide/threading
>> (the interesting paragraph is "POSIX threading vs. kernel threading").
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> It makes you wonder how Andrew's programs would behave under wine :-)

Indeed ^^

Regards,
Sven