[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 15:32, schrieb Andrew Brunner:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org>  wrote:
>
>> Impressive. So the FPC implementation on top of this obviously does
>> something on top of this which causes it to slow down.
>>
>> Possible culprits would then be the semaphores and TLS allocation.
>
> I obtained the source to pThreads system late last night.  It does use
> a barrier using which is not necessary.  And FPC (trunk) has another
> barrier on top of that.  I may re-compile pthreads library and update
> on my machine but I think I already have it running up to speed!
> Debugger slows things down too.
>
> Present version of ThreadMemTest running outside debugger:
>
> 10500 threads create in 1.5 seconds :-)

What are the exact differences from this test to your last one? Would be 
nice to know that... :)

Regards,
Sven