[fpc-pascal] TThread.Queue vs TThread.Synchronize

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/23/2015 11:08 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently seen some posts in Delphi groups that the preferred way is
> to use TThread.Queue instead of TThread.Synchronize.
TThread.Queue just "fires" an Event in the main thread. This means a 
"mark" is set that the event handler function is to be started by the 
main thread. Same performs this "as soon as possible", meaning that it 
is done as soon as the man thread is idle (no previously scheduled 
Events ("fired" by threads, GUI, ...) are in the pipe any more.

TThread.Synchronize does exactly the same, only that the thread calling 
TThread.Synchronize is frozen after firing the event, and the event 
handler is enhanced by code that frees the thread after the user code of 
the event handler is finished.

TThread.Queue works very similar to Application.QueueAsyncCall in the LCL

>
> Why is that? What are the benefits?
Obviously TThread.Queue does not hamper the firing thread, while 
TThread.Synchronize stalls it for an undefined amount of time.
As a benefit TThread,Synchronize avoids imposing mutual access issues,.

-Michael