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

[Vinzent Höfler]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:50:29 +0200, Jonas Maebe
<jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2010, at 22:31, Vinzent Höfler wrote:
>
>> - Suspend/Resume should be gone (you can't guarantee it to work,
>>  so there's no point in doing it at all)
>
> FWIW, they're deprecated since Delphi 2009, so they will disappear over  
> time. To resume a tthread created with fcreatesuspended=true, they  
> introduced a new "Start" method (which does basically the same as  
> Resume, but it's not deprecated).

So they already stole my idea! ;) Seriously that's good to hear,
because it solves some of the possible compatibility issues. If
users complain they can be told: "Delphi is doing it, too", then. ;)

>> - FreeOnTerminate should be gone, (meaning no way to actively call
>>  TThread.Destroy from another thread, a thread gets destroyed
>>  automatically when it leaves its execute method)
>>  (IIRC FreeOnTerminate was even set to False by the default
>>   constructor, so you had the choice of either using the default
>>   or introducing a race condition by setting it after the
>>   "inherited Create" - which starts the execute.)
>
> This problem has been solved with  
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16884

Yes. But isn't that precisely the (forced) thread suspension on
creation, Andrew is complaining about?


Vinzent.